Possible Clues:

• Had food finally landed in appropriate place, at long last?
• Not in time to be useful
• Corporation accepting revised date after some delay
• In a tardy fashion
• Removed date in tummy tardily
• Start to bounce with joy, after some delay
• Too late
• Stomach a boy's filled after everyone else has left table?
• Bishop's leading with show of exultation, and not before time
• Adverb meaning very or too late