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The latter drew their chairs nearer, as the door closed, made little clearings in the wilderness of finger-bowls, silver, and discarded napkins, for the accommodation of their coffee-cups and cordial glasses, and, lighting the long Invincibles which were Rathbawne's sole extravagance, inhaled that first matchless whiff of smoke which makes a whole day of anxiety and vexation seem to have been worth the while.
"Everything but napkins!" chuckled Rutter, as he and the boys quickly "set table" on the ground. "No; something else is missing," answered Tom gravely. "Bob forgot the finger-bowls." The helper, beginning to feel that he was being "guyed," took refuge in cold indifference. "Just stack the things up at this point when you're through," directed Bob. "I'll pick 'em up when I come back on the trail."
It had been recommended to Denry, by a man who knew what was what, as the best hotel in Switzerland. "Don't you be misled by prices," the man had said. And Denry was not. He paid sixteen francs a day for the two of them at the Beau-Site, and was rather relieved than otherwise by the absence of finger-bowls. Everything was very good, except sometimes the hot water.
Upon taking over the cup of tea, servants came once more and presented finger-bowls for them to rinse their mouths, and Tai-yue also rinsed hers; and after they had all again finished washing their hands, tea was eventually served a second time, and this was, at length, the tea that was intended to be drunk. "You can all go," observed dowager lady Chia, "and let us alone to have a chat."
On the right and left stood four young maids, whose hair had not as yet been allowed to grow, with fly-brushes, finger-bowls, and other such articles in their hands. Five or six old nurses were also drawn up on both sides like wings.
A moment later she returned to say that they were still at the ice stage and that it was impossible for the butler to deliver the note at once, in front of everybody; but that when the finger-bowls were put round he would find a way of slipping it into Mamma's hand. Now I was no longer separated from her; the barriers were down; an exquisite thread was binding us.
Roast veal, instead of the smothered chickens her mother had so often, and cooked so deliciously, a mountain of mashed potato corn on the cob, and an enormous heavy salad mantled with mayonnaise Margaret could have wept over the hopelessly plebeian dinner! "Mother, mayn't I get down the finger-bowls," she asked; "and mayn't we have black coffee in the silver pot, afterwards?" Mrs.
I am ever so sorry I haven't written for so long, but I haven't had a minute, really, truly. There are so many things to look at and to do. I am beginning to really love Gray Manor it is so always and always beautiful. Mr. Harkness is a dear and is very good and tells me what to do many times when I am stupid and do not see for myself like the finger-bowls. Jimmie and I never used finger-bowls.
If you've left no word, I'll put these girls on the car for home, and come back and institute a search for you." While the others busied themselves with finger-bowls, she wrote a hasty note on a leaf torn from her memorandum book, which she gave to Maud. Then she handed a card to Gay. "You are the pilot, so here is my friend's address on this card.
At another it would be a driving party to some out-of-town resort with the same, or a worse, crowd; midnight banquetings, with champagne in the finger-bowls, cocktails to go before and after, and quite likely some daring young woman to show us a new dance, with the cleared dinner-table for a stage.
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