The barkeep smiled and immediately started pouring boiling water into a tea kettle, letting it steep for a bit as she starts pouring up a bowl, with a hunk of bread.<br/><br/>"Well, it's a little early.  I find a lot of folk hunker down in their cabins the first day, making themselves at home, before comin' out for supper and mingling.  And we haven't picked up a lot of passengers yet.  We won't reach Wroat until tomorrow evenin', where we get the bulk of our passengers.  But I figure things will liven up a bit this evenin'."  As she spoke, she set out little bowls of cream, sugar, some sliced lemon, and butter for the bread.  Soon she had the tea ready and was pouring a cup for Ashton.