Right. And ayone who stumbles onto something like this every day would lead quite the interesting life, don't you think? ["Interesting", she says,]

Yes. You're giving me a hard time for falling asleep, but I'd say many others are handling this with a lot more difficulty than I am. So perhaps you should reroute your efforts into throwing a tea party for the entire office instead, Father? [She's gonna call him that forever anytime it wouldn't raise eyebrows/attract unwanted attention... He only gets a pass today because she's in habit, ftr]

Oh, are we already done? [Right better put these in the fridge--] That depends. What tea are you making, and are we having something else to go along with it? [She's not a tea snob she swears but there are Proper Ways to go at tea partaking, right? Right!]