Still, this was scarcely likely, for they would both approach the Pond from the east.
However, there would be no harm in fixing the bearings of the pond in her mind and so she crossed the park and skirting the formal canal now transformed into the ornamental water, reached the pond which was at the end of Birdcage Walk near Buckingham House, an enlarged version of which is known to us to-day as Buckingham Palace.
The pond was amidst picturesque surroundings.

There was nothing of the primness which William III.

had brought with him from Holland.

The trees had been allowed to grow as they pleased, the shrubs were untrimmed, the grass uncut.

The banks of the pond were steep in places, shelving in others.