"Teatime" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be with you at teatime," said Dr. Sinclair, "after which I should like you to ask her to come to me for a little ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various
... Smelt and Mrs. Delany came to us at teatime. Then, and in their society, I grew more easy ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay
... five and six o'clock, near the usual teatime, when she came upstairs and said that Master Tom was wanted. The person who wanted him was in the kitchen, and in the first moments, by the imperfect fire and candle light, Tom had not even an indefinite sense of any acquaintance with the rather broad-set but active figure, perhaps two ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... her own room, and Phoebe feared that her presence was intrusive, for she saw her hostess no more till teatime, when the wan face and placid smile almost made her weep at first, then wonder at the calm unconstrained manner in which her amusement was provided for, and feel ready to beg not to be treated like a child or a stranger. When parting for ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... discreetly after her.... But although he waited for an hour, she did not appear, nor was she to be seen in the tea-shop, when, tired and disappointed, he took his place in it. He dallied over his meal, hoping every moment that she would turn up, but at length he had to go away without seeing her. At teatime, he told himself, he would come again and wait for her. He climbed on to a 'bus and let himself be taken to Charing Cross, where he enquired the way to the National Gallery. He wandered through the rooms until his eyes ached with looking at the pictures and his feet were sore with walking on the ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine |
