No milk in your tea?

"And you never have milk in your tea?" Mum said it sympathetically, finding it hard to believe.
"Never. Tastes better. Really. You should try it," said Frances.
"At my age! Tea without milk." She laughed, then tried one more time. "Frances, you never had milk in your tea? Not ever?"
Frances confessed to drinking her coffee black too.
"Oh, well, coffee, yes, but tea? Funny, really. Oh, well."