“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”

—  Wilkie Collins, book The Woman in White

Volume II [Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 226 https://books.google.com/books?id=xAm2X8YfpJIC&amp;pg=PA226) <br class="br">Also in The Secret Ingredient by Laura Schaefer [Simon &amp; Schuster, 2012, ISBN 1-442-41960-1] ( p. 169 https://books.google.com/books?id=o1ctj37QuikC&amp;pg=PA169) <br class="br">Source: The Woman in White (1859)

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