That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 30, 2022

/// The new serving girl heard her decree:

“Set two places for Afternoon Tea.

Place the newspaper there

on my late husband’s chair,

and pour rum in the cup served to me.”

“And where are the scones?”

No Lizbeth Karo syrup is not the same as Aunt Jemima’s!

“ What a wonderful cup of tea!

Has the maid pull a fast one?” Thought she./

No ma’am!” Maid replied.

But, to us, she’d confide/

“I have spiced it with five drops of Pee !”

“What’s her name again?”

“Your husband will be late this morning. I think I broke him last night.”

The Ladies’ room is off to your right.

“Please excuse my being topless, Ma’am. It’s usually the Master at the table this time of day. Would you like some milk in your tea?”

The Countess noted Mimi’s slight bulging

Beneath her apron, divulging

What were those thumps late at night

That sometimes gave her a fright,

And to what the Count had been indulging.

Young Abigail stood in a silent rage. That WAS her drycleaner’s wife and that definitely WAS her dress.

“Why no, Miss Scarlett, I didn’t remove the green velvet drapes.”

Seems like a lot of effort for a Big Mac and fries dinner

“Why no, Miss Scarlett, I haven’t seen the pool boy yet today.”

“My dear, do you have any idea how hard it is not to laugh when you serve spotted dick?”

“I’m not wearing any panties!”

That’s not nearly on the level of the chocolate pie in The Help.

Wow, that young lady is so progressive – she actually looks at the hired help when issuing them instructions.

Abigail ponders whether she should induct the maid into the Walpurgis Night Society – she would look good in a leather corset.

There was nothing she could put her finger on, but Lady Ashley had this niggling feeling that Henrietta, the maid, was secretly getting it on with His Lordship.

“So where is he?”

“He who, ma’am?”

“Sammy Var. You said you were going to get Sammy Var”

“I said I was going to get the samovar, ma’am”

“I heard you the first time.”

REPRISE

Janice! Please refrain from passing gas when serving my poached egg!

The brazen TikTok posting put it over the top.

Paper Dolls?

What did you bring me? I asked for toast and marmalade for tea.

“No, ma’am, I don’t have the livery boy hidden under my skirts again today. Who do you have hidden under yours?”

“No, I’m not upset at you. I just have resting stink eye.”

“I did, however, make a small substitution for the currants in the scone.”

The new server entered the room. Their eyes met and she knew she was the one for her.

“What do you mean you didn’t spit in my tea? I paid extra for that!”

“Afternoon Tea,” 1865

Afternoon tea: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:George Dunlop Leslie" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string tea, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3035 (November 30, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 6 works by this artist (7 times, including 1 Throwback Thursday repeat), have been used here. The October 13, 2015, strip shows the prior.

Emily looks askance at the “Pullet Surprise.”

being the only people at the estate, Susan and lily switch roles as lady and servant

… but here’s your chocolate pie.