Lucy spread the napkin upon her table, and then went and got some of her cups and saucers, and put upon it. Joanna was ironing at the great kitchen table, and Lucy went to ask her how many cups and saucers she had better set.
“I should think it would take the whole set,” said Joanna, “to hold one good cup of tea.”
“But I am going to fill up my cup three times, Joanna; and if that isn’t enough, I shall fill it up four times.”
“O, then,” said Joanna, “I would not have but one cup,—or at most two. I think I would have two, because you may possibly have some company.”
“I wish you would come and be my company, Joanna.”
“No, I must attend to my ironing.”
“Well,” said Lucy, as she went back to her table, “I will have two cups, at any rate, for I may have some company.”
She accordingly put on two cups and a tea-pot; also a sugar-bowl and creamer. She placed them in various ways upon the table; first trying one plan of arrangement, and then another; and when at last they were placed in the best way, she went and called Miss Anne, to tell her that she was ready for her breakfast.
Miss Anne came out, according to her promise, to give her what she was to have to eat. First, she put a little sugar in her sugar-bowl; then some milk in her cream-pitcher; then some water, pretty hot, in her tea-pot.
“Could not you let me have a little real tea?” said Lucy.