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Madame Frabelle came in, dressed in a violet tea-gown. 'Tea? said Edith, holding out a cup. 'Yes, indeed! 'Wouldn't you like a slice of lemon? said Bruce. To offer her a slice of lemon with tea was, from Bruce, a tribute to the lady's talents. 'Oh no! Cream and sugar, please.
She had nearly completed her purchases all but some lace, which that lady wished to add to the ravishing tea-gown which was to be worn that evening, and to get this she would have to pass Mr. Palmer's jewelry store. Her heart beat fast as she drew near it, for she had been hoping all the way down town that she might see Ray and have a few minutes' chat with him.
She drew her loose tea-gown about her, and tried to gather up the unfastened masses of golden hair, with a charming blush. "Lewis!" she exclaimed. "Where did you come from? How you frightened me!"
She could think of no one whom it might be unless Owen. If it were, what would she say? And she waited, eager for the servant to announce the visitor. It was Monsignor Mostyn. She was dressed in a muslin tea-gown over shot green silk, and was conscious of her triviality as she stood before the tall, spare ecclesiastic.
They were fond of asking me to come to supper at Lincoln on Sundays. It was a gay, unceremonious meal, at which Mrs. Pattison appeared in the kind of gown which at a much later date began to be called a tea-gown.
It is the next day, and luncheon is well over, a somewhat badly-attended meal. But now all have managed to scramble downstairs, and the terrace is full of people who are saying "Good-morning" to each other at four o'clock in the afternoon. "I never felt so tired in my life," says Mrs. Chichester, subsiding into a lounge chair, and trying to look as if her tea-gown isn't quite new.
"This isn't mine," said honest Peggy; "it is Rita's " but Rita laid her hand over her mouth. "It is hers!" she said; "a nothing! a tea-gown of last year! One is ashamed to offer such a thing, not fit to scour floors in " "Certainly not!" said Mrs. Cheriton, laughing. "Ah, Rita! you have the Spanish ways, I see. I have heard nothing of that sort since I was in Spain sixty years ago."
She did not know that he had not been in Florence since he had known her. But what could have started him in the notion that Miss Dexter was Madame Danterre's child? And did he know it for certain now? That was what she would like to find out. Molly had on a pale green tea-gown, which fell into a succession of almost classic folds with each rapid characteristic movement.
The tea-gown had long lain in a chest, while Antonia was on her travels, and the great woman's eyes, fixed on more important things, had not perceived when it was taken out for her wear to-day that it was crushed and rumpled. Aurora believed it had been recovered from the ash-can, and her breast was filled with awe.
Lippa who has been gazing out of the window into the gaslit street below turns slowly, and going up to Mrs Seaton sits down on a stool at her feet, she is looking very lovely in a pale blue tea-gown and the lamp-light falling on her golden hair. 'Well, Mab, she says, 'is it a lecture or good advice, I'm not to mind?
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