Samovar Sanity

Many an evening have I been out and wished for a nice cup of tea, but passed on the idea out of prudence - caffeine. But I must never have never been to a formal affair with hundreds who feel the same.

And so it came to be that our hosts for the Brass Dragon Ball, bless them every one, took pains to provide elegant samovars of plain black tea, Earl Grey, and (for the outliers) coffee, all sans-caffeine.
It made the clever little tea sandwiches, strawberries, and petite-fours just that much tastier.