a descoberta da protagonista é bem previsível para o leitor, mas a sequência do chá logo após.. chef kiss.

Satisfied that there lingered no betraying evidence of weeping, she dusted a little powder on her dark-white face and again examined it carefully, and with a kind of ridiculing contempt.
"I do think", she confided to it, "that you've been something - oh, very much - of a damned fool."