"Then at every plate there was a beautiful cut glass bottle, something like a decanter, with ice water, and over the mouth of it a tumbler to match. Besides that, there were at each plate five or six other goblets or glasses, of different colours."
"What colours?" demanded Charity.
"Yellow, and dark red, and green, and white."
"What were they all for?" asked uncle Tim.
"Wine; different sorts of wine."
"Different sorts o' wine! How many sorts did they have, at one dinner?"
"I cannot tell you. I do not know. A great many."
"Did you drink any, Lois?"
"No, aunt Anne."
"I suppose they thought you were a real country girl, because you didn't?"