Men walked with their children on their shoulders, boys distributed tea and pastries.
Jilly chatters while giving two teenage boys their tea at another table beside a burr elm piano.
The boys have tea with me four nights a week and go to their dad's on the other three.
The policemen we trained and placed in power across the country customarily abuse children, whom they abduct from local communities and use as "chai boys," or tea servants.
Somewhere in Matilda's room, Fran is saying as she prepares the tray, lives a round table and two chairs, Little Bear size, ordered from one of those catalogues which arrive daily in the mail; this one featured three child models, she's saying, two girls and one boy, sipping tea at the table, sunlight streaming through windows that looked out on what appeared to be Russian countryside.
Someone had seen a little boy with tea-colored skin and Chinese eyes wandering lost in a market in Boundiali, crying for his mother.
His staff speak of him with awe and the tea boys get jumpy near him.
"The little boys drink their tea out of Ajax cups," he said.
"When I tell people many of our graduates worked on Avatar, they often think I mean as tea boys, but that's not the case.
Elected mayors, fire chiefs, doctors and even tea boys have all been locked up".The number of detentions doubled last year, and torture and sexual harassment of prisoners is on the rise," says Raci Bilici, acting chairman of the south-eastern chapter of Turkey's Human Rights Association.
