| abstract | - The Refreshment Lady first appeared in Peter Sam and the Refreshment Lady. She was about to board the next train when Peter Sam rushed out so he could get there before Henry departed from Crovan's Gate. She was furious about this when they got there until she explained to Peter Sam that Henry's train was a guaranteed connection. On the day Peter Sam left her behind, his driver was her newly married son-in-law. In the seventh season, she was trying to find the best location for her tea shop in the Skarloey Railway. Peter Sam took her to all the best places, but she couldn't make up her mind. After a storm blew over, Rusty was clearing debris and both he and Peter Sam discovered an old railway coach. Peter Sam decided to turn it into a very mobile tea shop. The Refreshment Lady was so delighted about it that the Fat Controller decided that Peter Sam could take her around all the places she wanted to sell her refreshments. She was also one of the important visitors Thomas was taking and was left behind at Black Loch. She has also sold refreshments at Wellsworth and Maron. She may be good friends with the Hatt and Kyndley families, as in Lady Hatt's Birthday Party, she is one of the guests at Lady Hatt's party and in Happy Ever After, she is one of the guests attending Mrs. Kyndley's daughter's wedding. She continued her work with the Skarloey Railway for some ten years after the incident and then enjoyed 21 years of contented retirement before her death in 1986. Her son-in-law is now also retired and lives with his wife in a cottage that the Refreshment Lady left to them in her Will.
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