Sentence:  Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible , it was <WSD>at</WSD> 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 hot milk to them handle first . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial)