"Tea time?"  Alys pulled out a pocketwatch and checked the hour.  "Ah, yes, I suppose it is.  And there really isn't anything further to be done with the information we have.  Tea would be lovely -- and I do have time for a trip to the library afterwards."  She went to fold the map up and handed it to Finny, to tuck in with the various newspaper clippings in his notebook.

By the time the tea was ready, Chris and Walter had been rounded up and and everyone was settled in the parlor.  Chris was fidgeting absently with a small cube featuring brightly painted squares of color.  It was something he'd shown to Walter earlier -- a Rubik's cube, Christopher called it.  Solving it was a trivial matter for Chris but playing around with it gave him something to do with his hands.

"Chris, put it away."

"But Lyssaaaa--!"

"No buts, Chris.  You can't have tea and play with that at the same time."