11.   Even in the late afternoon it is pleasantly crowded, mostly with tourists from countries that take tea more seriously than the United States.

12.   Here the Adams family took afternoon tea.

13.   I was only slightly surprised to find a harpist playing while we took tea.

14.   It is possible, I suppose, to visit Victoria and not take afternoon tea at The Empress hotel, but what is the point?

15.   It is, perhaps, just what the Duchess of Bedford had in mind when she established the custom of taking tea in early Victorian England.

16.   Last summer they were invited to take tea with the Queen.

17.   Like her, he takes his tea with milk and sugar.

18.   She can take tea and titter without her getup getting in the way.

19.   Tea was taken at Greenway House, the Christie estate in Devon, which is rarely open to the public.

20.   The Western nation that took tea closest to its heart, however, was Merry Old England.