THE LITTLE TEA BOOK 



ed into the bleak, black night, as a 

 roar of laughter drowned his repent- 

 ant sobs." But the ladies of the 

 novel confine themselves almost ex- 

 clusively to tea rarely allowing their 

 heroes and heroines to indulge in 

 even coffee, though they sometimes 

 treat their heroes to wine ; but their 

 heroines rarely get anything from 

 them but Oolong. 



