Question

what is a chocolate house in The way of the world by william congreve.
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Answer 1

It is around midday in a London chocolate house, a fashionable meeting place for eighteenth-century gentlemen. Two men, Mirabell and Fainall, are playing cards. Fainall ends the game, though, when he senses that Mirabell's mind is preoccupied with something that's making him contemplative and grave.