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In Bessie's vivacious demeanour as she served the high-tea at six o'clock might be observed the symptoms of the agreeable excitation which all felt. Even Rose unbent, and Leonora thought how attractive the girl could be when she chose. But towards the end of the meal, it became evident that Rose was preoccupied. Leonora, Ethel, and Millicent passed into the drawing-room.
"If I had only acted upon my first impressions, I should have sent you adrift at once I should not have tolerated your presence a single hour; but you were so demure and innocent that you deceived me completely, and I never found you out until the morning after my high-tea. Then I understood your game, and resolved to so effectually clip your wings that you could never do me any mischief."
She could have dropped into her mother's arms. 'What have you come in, Nora? asked Stanway, 'the trap? 'No, the four-wheeled dog-cart, dear. 'Well, Twemlow, drive up and have tea with us. Come along and have a Five Towns high-tea. 'Oh, Mr. Twemlow, do! said Milly, nearly drowning Leonora's murmured invitation. Arthur hesitated. 'Come along, Stanway insisted genially. 'Of course you will.
"I've just finished having high-tea at a pastry-cook's," came the answer, "and they let me telephone. I've had a poached egg and a sausage roll and four meringues." "You'll be ill. Are the little Jutterlys with you?" "Rather not. They're in a pigstye." "A pigstye? Why? What pigstye?" "Near the Crawleigh Road.
It is not only, I think, that there are crowds of people who, like we were, are in the economically ascendant phase, but whole masses of the prosperous section of the population must be altering its habits, giving up high-tea for dinner and taking to evening dress, using the week-end hotels as a practise-ground for these new social arts.
Ben immediately drew out his little pack, and handed her two. It was still light enough to read; and as Ben moved on, she stood and opened them. "This," she announced in a matter-of-course way, "is from Miss Dorothy Gwynne, who requests the pleasure of my company at a high-tea next Saturday. That, or the hay-ride, Will? And this this " It was a simple envelope addressed to
Miss Thompson, loud-voiced and garrulous, was evidently quite willing to gossip, but Mrs Macphail had a poor stock of small talk and presently she said: "Well, I think we must go upstairs." In the evening when they sat down to their high-tea Davidson on coming in said: "I see that woman downstairs has a couple of sailors sitting there. I wonder how she's gotten acquainted with them."
She felt that before she and Constance were very much older she had a very great deal to do, and that a subtle diplomacy and wary tactics would be necessary. Moreover, Constance's angelic temper was slightly affected by the strain of expectation. She had a tendency to rasp. After the high-tea was set she suddenly sprang on to the sofa and lifted down the 'Stag at Eve' engraving.
In this 'boudoir', on winter afternoons, a fire would be lighted, and Miss Marks would withdraw to it, not seen by us anymore between high-tea and the apocalyptic exercise known as 'worship' in less strenuous households much less austerely practised under the name of 'family prayers'. Left meanwhile to our own devices, my Father would mainly be reading his book or paper held close up to the candle, while his lips and heavy eyebrows occasionally quivered and palpitated, with literary ardour, in a manner strangely exciting to me.
He should have imagined a sort of high-tea supper at seven o'clock, and been gently corrected by his courteous employer. As it was, Mr. Weatherley felt dimly confident that this junior clerk of his was more accustomed to eight o'clock dinners than he was himself. "A quarter to, to-night," he replied. "People coming for bridge afterwards, you see.
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