There was nobody about but the Japanese serving woman.

Snooky was in raptures, and Blix spent a delightful half-hour there, drinking Japanese tea, and feeding the wafers to the carp and gold-fish in the tiny pond immediately below where she sat.

A Chinaman, evidently of the merchant class, came in, with a Chinese woman following.

As he took his place and the Japanese girl came up to get his order, Blix overheard him say in English: "Bring tea for-um leddy." "He had to speak in English to her," she whispered; "isn't that splendid! Did you notice that, Snooky ?" On the way home Blix was wondering how she should pass her evening.
She was to have made one of a theatre party where Jack Carter was to be present.

Then she suddenly remembered "Morrowbie Jukes," "The Return of Imri," and "Krishna Mulvaney." She continued on past her home, downtown, and returned late for supper with "Plain Tales" and "Many Inventions." Toward half-past eight there came a titter of the electric bell.