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Five O'Clock Tea: Farce

Chapter 17: HARPER'S AMERICAN ESSAYISTS.
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A comic farce set during a fashionable afternoon call in which a hostess fusses over her appearance while a gentleman visitor alternates between flattery and self-mockery as he presses for a declaration of affection. Their witty banter and small deceptions, together with anxieties about the arrival of tedious guests, expose social pretension and the rituals of domestic hospitality. Misunderstandings, flirtation, and physical comedy around props such as a fan and the gaslight create gentle satire of urban social manners within a single drawing-room scene.

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