The Squire’s Tale
“I won’t come to table unable to make talk with him,“ she said. ‘If you kept your bed and had supper brought in…“ Mistress Avys started. Lady Blaunche waved the possibility aside. “Neither my husband nor my cousin Sir Walter would pardon such ill manners.” And in truth when supper was called, she rose to it readily enough, leading the way from bedchamber into hall as if naught had ever been amiss with her. Master and Mistress Humphrey had done well by her, with shiningly white linen on what was ...the “high” table, though the hall had no dais at all to make it higher than the only other one there was, and the pewterware at Lady Blaunche’s place shined to its best glow. The rest of them would make do with bread trenchers and wooden cups but the cups were clean and well-polished and the bread thickly cut. There was merely a momentary confusion after Lady Blaunche had gestured that she meant Master Humphrey to sit on her right side, Mistress Humphrey on her left with Katherine beyond her, when Katherine said no, she would wait on Lady Blaunche at table, please her; and added, before Lady Blaunche could more than begin to frown objection, “If you would grace me with the favor, my lady,”MoreLess
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