He said, "It's almost teatime."
"Teatime? We just had dinner!"
Bobby grinned. "It's only been two hours since we left the dinner table, but all the same it's teatime, and Mrs. Murdock will be hard to handle if we're not on the dot. English cooks are tough babies. Didn't you know that Churchill's island escaped invasion because they ringed it all around with English cooks?"
(from The Applegreen Cat, by Frances Crane)
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