table-d'hete

Updated: July 2, 2026

When their microscopic accounts balanced at the end of the week, they celebrated with a table-d'hete dinner down town dinners from which they walked home gloriously happy, Nancy wondering over and over again HOW the restaurateurs could manage it, Bert, over his cigar, estimating carefully: "Well, Sweet, there wasn't much cost to that soup, delicious as it was, and I suppose they buy that sole down at the docks, in the early morning..."

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Undertow