tea-kitchen

Updated: July 24, 2025

Moggy carried the jingling tray of tea-things into Nutter's little study, and lighted his candles, and set the silver snuffers in the dish, and thought she heard him coming, and ran back again, and returned with the singing 'tea-kitchen, and then away again, for the thin buttered toast under its china cover, which our ancestors loved.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Church-Yard