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Mrs. Heath, in a kindly sort of way, was beginning to lose patience with her lodger. She took him up some breakfast which he had not ordered and set it down firmly before him.
"I only wanted a cup of tea, Mrs. Heath," Bliss reminded her, looking wistfully at the bacon.