Five O'Clock
`` Now it 's all ready , except the choc ` late . '' And waving an old tin coffeepot , whose nose was a thing of the past , she filled it at the faucet over the wooden sink , and put it down with a flourish at one end of the table . `` Now we 're ready , an ' I 'm the beautiful lady up to your house -- I seen her , once when I was peekin ' through the fence '' -- she nodded shrewdly , her little eyes snapping -- `` her an ' your sister . '' -LSB- Illustration : Five O'Clock Tea -RSB- `` Oh , I want Polly , '' broke out Phronsie , with such a wail , as she sat , a frozen little heap , not daring to stir , that the girl screamed out : `` Well , I 'm goin ' to take you to her , when I 've given you my five-o'clock tea ; that is , if you do n't cry . An ' I ai n't goin ' to be the beautiful lady up at your house ; I 'll be Mrs. somebody else . No , I 'll be a Dukess -- the Dukess of Marlbrer -- I 've seen her in the paper . Oh , you 've got to have the best chair , '' and she dragged up the sole article of furniture of that name , minus its back , away from the door ; then helping Phronsie up from the floor , she wiped off the tears on her pinafore , no longer white , and soon had her installed on it .