"It's the fifteenth of March.

Perhaps there's a Court." She thought of the crowd waiting in the cold spring air to see the grand carriages go by.

"It's very cold, if it's not raining," she said.

"First there are men selling picture postcards; then there are wretched little shop-girls with round bandboxes; then there are bank clerks in tail coats; and then--any number of dressmakers.

People from South Kensington drive up in a hired fly; officials have a pair of bays; earls, on the other hand, are allowed one footman to stand up behind; dukes have two, royal dukes--so I was told--have three; the king, I suppose, can have as many as he likes.