How Ronald and Edith Met in a Tea Club

At the age of 16 Ronald met Edith Mary Bratt who was three years his senior. When he and his brother Hillary moved into a boarding house where she lived. According to Humphrey Carpenter they took to frequenting Birmingham tea shops especially one which had a balcony overlooking the pavement. There they would sit and throw sugar lumps into hats of passerby's moving to the next table when the sugar bowl was empty. They said like these are just like friends from school that he's sat in contact with the tea club. With two people of their personalities and in their passionate position romance was bound to flourish both both wall fans.