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She stood in front of the glass so long that Toni grew impatient. "Hurry up, Fan! I'm sure tea's ready and I'm dying for some. I hadn't much lunch." Thus incited, Miss Gibbs laid aside the flowery hat she had been admiring, disclosing a much curled and waved coiffure, and together the cousins ran downstairs, just as Andrews carried in the silver tea-pot and the hot cakes.
Aloud she said cheerfully: "I think this is dreadful making you work so hard, Rod. Come tea's nearly ready. You and I'll wait for it in the dining room, like the gentleman and lady we are!" "Oh, I'm having a grand time!" Rodney laughed. But he allowed himself to be led away. A few minutes later Martie, with despair in her heart, carried the loaded tray into the dining room.
A faint, mixed perfume of violet sachet and fricasseed chicken attended her. "Well, as you were saying, Ralph?" she suggested. "Oh, I was just tracing a little parallel between Hatboro' and Sheol," replied her husband. Mrs. Putney made a tchk of humorous patience, and laughed toward Annie for sympathy. "Well, then, I guess you needn't go on. Tea's ready. Shall we wait for the doctor?"
"I suppose they're beginning to cook something that takes a long time to do, for dinner or supper, rather," I thought. "She said they were getting tea, so " "Tea's ready, good people, if you're ready for it," announced Mrs. Trowbridge's gentle voice at the door. Mr. Trowbridge and Mr.
Meanwhile, poor Betty Flanders's letter, having caught the second post, lay on the hall table poor Betty Flanders writing her son's name, Jacob Alan Flanders, Esq., as mothers do, and the ink pale, profuse, suggesting how mothers down at Scarborough scribble over the fire with their feet on the fender, when tea's cleared away, and can never, never say, whatever it may be probably this Don't go with bad women, do be a good boy; wear your thick shirts; and come back, come back, come back to me.
"It's a shame to wake him," thought Jerry; "cup o' tea's a fine thing when you're tired out, but a good long sleep's a deal better. Poor chap, I won't disturb him, but I'll take the tea in and put it on a chair by his bedside. He shall see as I didn't forget him in trouble. On'y to think him a real gent with a handle to his name and lots of money to come in for when he's one-and-twenty.
I just mean, you couldn't have had so terribly much fun, after you were eighteen or so. Schoenstrom must have been a little dull, after very many years there. This stuff about the charm of backwoods villages the people that write it seem to take jolly good care to stay in Long Island suburbs!" "Claire!" He was whispering desperately, "The tea's most done. Oh, my dear.
The verdict was 'Guilty. And the sentence was 'Five years' Penal Servitude. "Oh, Daddy," she whispered, crushing the paper hard, "it's not true I don't believe it. You never did it! Never, never, never!" There was a hammering on the door. "What is it?" said Bobbie. "It's me," said the voice of Phyllis; "tea's ready, and a boy's brought Peter a guinea-pig. Come along down." And Bobbie had to.
"Tea's gone," Mrs. Brook then said as if there were something in the loss peculiarly irretrievable. "But I suppose," she added, "he gave you all you want." "Oh dear yes, thank you I've had lots."
Dave thrust himself forward as an interpreter of Dolly's secret wishes, saying, to the astonishment of his aunt and uncle: "Dorly wants to take her upstairs to show her where the tea's to be set out when Mrs. Spicture comes back." Remonstrance was absolutely necessary, but what form could it take?
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