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The mid-day visit seemed very short; September hours are brief to match / the shortening days. The great subject was dismissed for a while after / our visit to the Queen's pictures, and my companions spoke much of / lesser persons until we drank the cup of tea which Mrs. Todd had / foreseen. I happily remembered that the Queen herself is said to like / a proper cup of tea, and this at once seemed to make her Majesty kindly / join so remote and reverent a company. Mrs. Martin's thin cheeks took / on a pretty color like a girl's. "Somehow I always have thought of her / when I made it extra good," she said. "I 've got a real china cup that / belonged to my grandmother, and I believe I shall call it hers now."
"Why don't you? " responded Mrs. Todd warmly, with a delightful smile.