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I found them in the Bennetts ' smoke-house covered with the dust of ages . '' It was little things like these that made Sally 's shop unusual and inviting , but Piney started a new venture herself accidentally . She and Sally had always been chums , and now she spent most of her time helping her . It became the order of the day for them to have a cup of tea about four o'clock . Piney would take a candle-stand by the west window and make it look so inviting with a little strip of homespun linen and a spray of flowering almond that no one could resist tea from the old blue ware which Mrs. Peckham had donated . They were just having tea one afternoon when Miss Emery came in with the girls from the Academy in New York . There was Frances , and the two Farley sisters , Gwen and Elise .