Chapter 29Mrs. Ball and Miss Silver took tea with the Miss Blakes, following a most pressing invitation from Miss Ora.
“I hope you don’t mind,” Ruth said in an apologetic voice, “but she rings up and makes it practically impossible to say no. If we hadn’t been able to go to-day, it would have been the next day, or the next, or the next, so I thought it would be better to get it over. Once she knows anyone has a visitor she can’t rest until she has had them to tea—and she really does have a very dull life, poor thing.”
Miss Silver said she would be delighted to have tea with the Miss Blakes.
“An invalid is deprived of so much.”
They found Miss Ora in her best shawl—quite a new one of a delicate shade of pink, the price of which had filled Miss Mildred with gloom. Her hair was disposed i
