Staff were attentive, offering jasmine tea in paper cups and presenting name cards to each prospective customer.

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There they would be offered jasmine tea, served by a butler called James, in a Tiffany cup (designed by Miss Connolly, one of her numerous sidelines).

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Jasmine is present, if at all, only in endless cups of tea.

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