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She had invented new combinations, always holding to the idea of satisfying the substantial appetites of men. There would be no use, she argued, in offering five-o'clock-tea combinations. She was very busy and very happy and very hopeful. "If this keeps up," she told her mother, "I shall rent a little shop and sell them over the counter." Her mother had an invalid's pessimism.
"Well, suppose this house, just as it is, placed a few billion miles above a planet, and with nothing else near enough to disturb it: of course it falls to the planet?" The Earl nodded. "Of course though it might take some centuries to do it." "And is five-o'clock-tea to be going on all the while?" said Lady Muriel. "That, and other things," said Arthur.
When I was down there last winter the five-o'clock-tea people were still recalling Mrs. Blount's gowns and the wild-Western naïveté of 'The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush." Gantry was chuckling softly when the half-bitter admission had got itself fully made.
"To avoid that, "said Arthur, "let us have the furniture fixed to the floor, and ourselves tied down to the furniture. Then the five-o'clock-tea could go on in peace." "With one little drawback!, Lady Muriel gaily interrupted. "We should take the cups down with us: but what about the tea?" "I had forgotten the tea," Arthur confessed.
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