Teaser Tuesday... with a cup of tea

I feel like I should be drinking tea when I read the book The House at Tyneford.  We are in our second week of the read a long.  Elise is the Jewish refugee parlour maid.  Diana is a guest at Tyneford.  (Lady Diana Hamilton).  I think this series of sentences demonstrates a more realistic view of how a refugee parlour maid may have been treated in England at the start of WWII.  Up till this point we have seen her treated kindly.  My parents were refugees in England for a short time, and my mother hated it, she said she could not walk down the street without being spit at and cursed.  A major reason why they left England. 

 My teaser:
Diana's napkin sprawled at her feet once more.  The fabric on her dress must have been very slippery.  I knelt to pick it up and, as my fingers touched it, she moved her foot, pinning my skirt to the floor with a sharp heel.  I crouched at her feet, trapped like an idiotic pageboy I tugged at my skirt but she dug in farther, so that I could not free myself without making a scene.  After a half minute, she allowed me to sand and replace the fallen napkin onto her lap.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!