Is there to be anything more, Kitty Tolbridge ?" The doctor's wife could not restrain a little laugh.
"No," she said, "there is to be nothing more, unless you will take a little tea." Miss Panney pushed back her chair and looked at her hostess.

"Tea after a meal like that! I should think not.

If you had had champagne during the luncheon, and coffee afterwards, I shouldn't have been surprised." "I did not order coffee," said Mrs.Tolbridge, "because we don't take it in the middle of the day, but--" "You ordered quite enough," said her visitor, severely; "and I will say this for Kipper, that he never got up a better meal, although--" "Kipper!" interrupted Mrs.Tolbridge.

"Kipper had nothing to do with this luncheon.

It was prepared by my new cook.