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"Some tea, please," he said faintly, and his intimidated tone said, "If it isn't troubling you too much." "What do you want with it?" asked the gentlewoman abruptly, and as he was plainly at a loss she added, "Crumpets or tea-cake?" "Tea-cake," he replied, though he hated tea-cake. But he was afraid. "You've escaped this time," said the drapery of her muslins as she swam from his sight.
My wife's in the house, teaching our new maid to make tea-cakes you shall have some at five o'clock. I wonder whether any girl could be found nowadays who knows how to make tea-cakes? There's Rosamund she knows no more about that kind of thing than of ship-building. Do you know any young lady who could make a toothsome tea-cake?"
However when all had taken as much tea and cakes and marrons glacés as they cared for David was so shy that he had only one cup of tea and one piece of tea-cake the large group broke up into five smaller ones.
'Very likely they are washing their hands, said her mother. 'So like them! murmured Uncle Lambert in confidence to his tea-cake. 'But here's the noble General, at all events. Well, Field Marshal, what have you done with the Standing Army? Tinling addressed himself to his hostess. 'Oh, Mrs. Jolliffe, I'm so sorry I was late, but I had just to run round to the stables for a minute.
He ate as though he had had no meal for a month at least, and he had utterly demolished the tea-cake before he realised that no one else had had any. "Oh, I say, I'm so sorry," he said ruefully. "Mary, why didn't you tell me? I'll never forgive myself " and proceeded to finish the saffron buns. "All the same," said Mary, "we're going to church to-night, all of us, and if you're very good, Mr.
Old times crowded fast back on me as I watched her bustling about setting out the tea-tray with her best china, cutting bread and butter, toasting a tea-cake, and, between whiles, giving little Robert or Jane an occasional tap or push, just as she used to give me in former days. Bessie had retained her quick temper as well as her light foot and good looks.
Poor old Pyecraft! He has just gonged, no doubt to order another buttered tea-cake! He came to the actual thing one day. "Our Pharmacopoeia," he said, "our Western Pharmacopoeia, is anything but the last word of medical science. In the East, I've been told " He stopped and stared at me. It was like being at an aquarium. I was quite suddenly angry with him.
"By Jove!" he said, "I shall be able to come back to the club again." The thing pulled me up short. "By Jove!" I said faintly. "Yes. Of course you will." He did. He does. There he sits behind me now, stuffing as I live! a third go of buttered tea-cake.
He ate tea-cake, smiled and shook hands with Peter, listened for half an hour to the spirited conversation of his two children and trotted away again, leaving behind him an atmosphere of gentle politeness and an amazing savoir-faire that one saw his children struggling to catch.
"You can stir the public mind. Mr. Spargo what are you going to write about my father and today's proceedings?" Spargo signed to her to pour out the tea which had just arrived. He seized, without ceremony, upon a piece of the hot buttered tea-cake, and bit a great lump out of it. "Frankly," he mumbled, speaking with his mouth full, "frankly, I don't know. I don't know yet.
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