Afternoon tea

A Tibetan maid serves afternoon tea in the Windamere Hotel, Darjeeling, with the usual accompaniments of white-bread sandwiches (with the crusts removed), scones and cake. In the sitting room beyond, where tea is taken, a notice admonishes guests “not to take off their footwear, or put their feet on the furniture, or lie supine on the hearth, or sleep behind the settee, lest unintended offence be given to others.”