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Alicia looked decidedly chagrined and a little angry, but Mr. Brown proceeded to talk of other matters, and though it was plain to be seen he meant the advice he had given them, all unpleasant effect was forgotten as he began to tell them some funny anecdotes. And then tea was brought in, and they all grouped round the teatable, still listening to his entertaining chat.
Ahead it divided and in the resulting triangle, behind a well-clipped hedge, stood a pretty cottage with a red roof Hastings', I was sure. I tossed away my pipe and opened the gate. A rather pretty woman of about thirty-five was reading in a red hammock; there were half a dozen straw easy chairs and near by a teatable, with the kettle steaming. Mrs.
The eyes to which he referred had been fixed in serene confidence upon his as he began to speak. But a second later Rachael dropped them, and they rested upon her own slender hand, lying idle upon the teatable, with its plain gold ring guarded by a dozen blazing stones. Had he really stirred her, Warren Gregory wondered, as he watched the thoughtful face under the bright, cherry-loaded hat.
How social and cheerful was the gathering around the teatable, lavishly spread with dainties! How golden and glorious looked the hills, the trees, and the river in the last rays of the setting sun, as we started from the door on our return!
The little word set Rachael's heart to hammering again. She glanced quickly to see if Mrs. Moran had overheard, but that lady had at last caught sight of the maid with the hot toast, and her ample back was turned toward the teatable. Indeed, in the noisy, disordered room, which was beginning to be deserted by straggling groups of guests, they were quite unobserved.
The tea drinking fills the public-house, makes the frequenting of it habitual, corrupts boys as soon as they are able to move from home, and does little less for the girls, to whom the gossip of the teatable is no bad preparatory school for the brothel. At the very least, it teaches them idleness.
"Yesterday morning; a fine dog-fox, with a dark brush," confided Mrs. Hoopington. "Aha, we'll have a good gallop after that brush to-morrow," said the Major, with a transient gleam of good humour. And then gloomy silence settled again round the teatable, a silence broken only by despondent munchings and the occasional feverish rattle of a teaspoon in its saucer.
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