In this room the queen holds her court when she is in Cambridge; for the lodge then becomes a palace, and the 'master' retires to some other apartments, and comes to dinner only when asked.
"It is said that the present master does not much like to submit to this position.
"In this great room hang full-length portraits of Henry and Elizabeth.
On another wall is a portrait of Newton, and on a third the sweet face of a young girl, Dr.Whewell's niece, of whom I heard him speak as 'Kate.' "Dr.Whewell received us in this room, standing on a rug before an open fireplace; a wood fire was burning cheerily.

Mrs.Airy's daughter, a young girl, was with us.
"Dr.Whewell shook hands with us, and we stood.

I was very tired, but we continued to stand.

In an American gentleman's house I should have asked if I might sit, and should have dropped upon a chair; here, of course, I continued to stand.

After, perhaps, fifteen minutes, Dr.Whewell said, 'Will you sit ?' and the four of us dropped upon chairs as if shot! "The master is a man to be noted, even physically.