In thirty years' time she'll have had enough of it, and be glad to creep into a quiet corner like this.

My wife's in the house, teaching our new maid to make tea-cakes--you shall have some at five o'clock.

I wonder whether any girl could be found nowadays who knows how to make tea-cakes?
There's Rosamund--she knows no more about that kind of thing than of ship-building.

Do you know any young lady who could make a toothsome tea-cake ?" "I'm not quite sure," answered Will reflectively, "but I have one in mind who perhaps does--it wouldn't surprise me." "That's to your credit.

By the bye, you know that Norbert has been here." "Yes, I heard of it.