and set it out on this very table. Then I called my master, and went down to my own tea in the servants' hall.\"
\"What did the tea consist of?\"
\"Just thin bread and butter, 'm, and a plain cake. The Commodore ate very plain, along of his gastritis, but he does love his tea—did love it, I mean. He would drink two or three cups of an afternoon.\"
\"Gabbitt, tell me the exact arrangement of the tea tray,\" said my employer. While she listened to him, she lit a cigarette.
and set it out on this very table. Then I called my master, and went down to my own tea in the servants' hall.\"
\"What did the tea consist of?\"
\"Just thin bread and butter, 'm, and a plain cake. The Commodore ate very plain, along of his gastritis, but he does love his tea—did love it, I mean. He would drink two or three cups of an afternoon.\"
\"Gabbitt, tell me the exact arrangement of the tea tray,\" said my employer. While she listened to him, she lit a cigarette.
