Lucia, following, found her examining the tea-tray.
"Only two cups," said Miss Palliser. "Isn't it going to get any tea then?"
"Isn't what going to get any tea?"
"It. The man thing you keep in there."
"Yes. But it doesn't get it here."
"I think you might ask it in. It might amuse me."
Lucia ignored the suggestion.
"I haven't talked," said Miss Palliser, "to a man thing for ages."
"It hasn't come to be talked to. It's much too busy."
"Mayn't it come in, just for a treat?"