CHAPTER THREE
Angie wasn't at all pleased with Connie. They'd been working at the tearoom for three weeks, but problems kept turning up.
The first week, they realized that Connie needed to buy a glass counter to display the pastries that would be sold. She found one second-hand, but it was still quite pricey. She and Angie also scoured Salvation Army and Goodwill stores to buy tables and chairs. To make them look inviting, however, Connie had to buy frilly chair cushions, pretty tablecloths, matching napkins, napkin rings, and untarnished flatware. Tea rooms, after all, didn't use paper cups and plastic utensils.
All that was bad enough, but the biggest setback came in the second week when Angie and Connie opened the tea room for business and immediately discovered that, despite its nam
