Tea has got nothing to do with manners. [ she smiles. ] Tea's just good.
[ a comfort, a security blanket, a reminder to catch one's breath. for peggy, it doesn't hold half the ceremony stereotype suggests it should. she'll drink it out of an army tin if she must.
[ and, oddly, that makes him smile, too. mainly because he could guess she'd say that, maybe because it's all familiar and not in a painful way. it's that familiarity that leads to a very rare occurrence, he lifts both his arms ( one of them trembles, still ) ]
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[ absolutely not. ]
you lost scolding rights, I hate to say.
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That's entirely different. [ sort of. ] Besides, I was still at school! Young. Reckless. You're a helluva lot older; you ought to know better.
[ oh, gee, now she's all about deferring to her 'elders'. ]
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that never happens. anyone can tell you that.
[ tony stark never knows better. it's just a known fact by now. ]
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[ none at all. ]
We're never too old to learn some manners or some graces.
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[ and hold on - ]
I'm sitting here drinking tea, isn't that enough?
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[ a comfort, a security blanket, a reminder to catch one's breath. for peggy, it doesn't hold half the ceremony stereotype suggests it should. she'll drink it out of an army tin if she must.
just never with sugar. ]
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Okay, I give.
[ he gives her a win without any fuss. ]