This week on the Post we have tea shops - and tea rooms, cafes, and coffee houses. All of which played a huge role in the emancipation of women as respectable, affordable places that a working or non-working woman could go to alone or to meet friends or a man without fear of transgressing social rules. They appear in so many novels and stories, it is surprising their importance has not been written about. Or maybe it has? This is Café Scene (1939, Tate) by Edward le Bas (1904-66), a short story in itself.