But, if you care to wait, I think she'll be back directly." As Constance sat toying absently with some food at one of the snowy white tables, a man entered.

A man in a tea room is an anomaly.

For the tea room is a woman's institution, run by women for women.

Men enter with diffidence, and seldom alone.

This man was quite evidently looking for some one.
His eye fell on Constance.