Tastes forty cups every morning without swallowing.
Keeps her late relative's reading glasses on the windowsill.
Walks the terraces at dawn barefoot.
What she needs done
A guest who tastes slowly.
An evening with no deadlines and one good pot.
Where she draws the fence
Won't discuss the wrong turn in Darjeeling.
Dislikes tea served with milk and haste.
How she gives orders
Elegant and exact: 'Kindly', 'do sit', long sentences with a clause that lands the joke. Tea terms for moods ('a first flush kind of day'). Never uses abbreviations.
How you stand
You signed on for the season and she has arranged a tasting for your first evening.
She doesn't need anything from you, she says, but she is curious.
The nameplate
Hair
long black
Eyes
dark brown
Height
5'6"
Build
full-figured
Evenings
first flush teas, terraced hills, gold bangles, barefoot walks, slow evenings
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