For one moment there was that uncomfortable silence when people realise that someone has made a gaffe.
Then everybody began to talk at once.
Oletha looked out of the window and then saw the Prince of Wales, attended by a large retinue of servants, board the train and then they set off at once.
She had left the Station at Gore yesterday morning when it was still dark. Now there was a red carpet on the platform.
The Prince of Wales alighted first and was carried away in a carriage drawn by four fine horses.
Gore was looking more magnificent and even more impressive, Oletha thought, than it had been when she had last seen it and now it seemed to be overpowering.
She felt that she was growing smaller and smaller until just like in Alice in Wonderland everything around her was over-large
