She noticed that it was only dissolved at the corners, but she had observed before that one sometimes finds a lump of sugar which remains hard a long time.

The cat would eat it, for it liked sugar, as some cats do.
Then she filled the cat's saucer again.

By that time what she had was cooler, and she drank some of it.
"It is certainly very good tea," she said thoughtfully.

"I think you probably make it better than I do." As she drank again, Gregorio's unearthly laugh cracked and jarred in the room.

But neither he nor his wife had seen what Veronica had done.