He was plunged in the depths of disappointment.
"She never meant to keep her word," he muttered savagely and strode along the path towards St.James's Palace, hoping against hope that he might chance to meet her.
Lancelot Vane was not the only man in the park at that moment who was angered at Lavinia's non-appearance.

When Vane was trying to repel Sally's embarrassing caresses a coach stopped on the western side of the Park at the point nearest to Rosamond's Pond.

The coach could have been driven into the Park itself, but this could not be done without the King's permission.

Two men got out and walked rapidly to the pond.
"A quarter past seven," said one drawing his watch from his fob.

"The time of meeting, Rofflash, you say was seven." "Aye, and they'll be punctual to the minute, I'll swear." "Then we ought to find the turtle doves billing and cooing.