Chapter 47
Week 17, Instructor Calendar, May 1896
“Here, this may help,” a soothing voice said.
Concordia, lost in thought, looked up to see Mr. Bradley holding the cup of tea that she had ordered. She gave him a wan smile as she took it.
“Do you work for Mrs. Gilly now?” she teased half-heartedly.
He smiled and sat down. “She has her hands full with patrons inside the shop. I thought I’d expedite things.”
At Mr. Bradley’s insistence, they had gone to the Canton Tea Shop, several blocks from Hartford Women’s College. “You need to get away from the school for a little while,” he had told her.
With so much still to do, Concordia had resisted at first, but now she was glad she had given in. She hadn’t been here in years. The shop offered a vast array of teas from around the world
