Sentence:  Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible , it was at least something that they were able to offer Eugene the sugar bowl with their sugar in it , and the plate of bread and butter , and that Eugene could return the pitcher of <WSD>hot</WSD> milk to them handle first . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning