Lucy watched Anita as she returned to the living room with a tray containing two platters of chocolate cookies. She dropped a platter on the parlor stool beside Lucy, and the other on another stool, before returning inside with the tray to get a teapot, teacups a bowl of sugar and cream.
Seeing how Anita had chosen to serve tea and cookies instead of soda or something simple, she became curious about Anita's background and upbringing. Everything about the lady from her poise and conduct, to even how she talked and laughed seemed elegant and classy. It was almost as if she was preparing to be married into a royal family or a high-class family. Tea would be the last thing she would ever think of serving a guest at her apartment. Not when there was wine, beer, or canned soda drinks.
"Please help yourself," Anita said, after pouring some quantity of tea into Lucy's teacup and setting it on a saucer.
