The outside of the Houses of Parliament had always affected Katherine. They looked stately and English-and when they-herself and old Arabella d'Estaire and Gerard-walked through the corridors of the House of Lords, and came at last to the huge vaulted chamber itself, and so to the pen where they might stand to hear the debate, her heart began to beat with some strange excitement.
They went into the left side enclosure, and so could have a facing view of the Opposition benches.
Some member of the Government had just begun a speech as they entered, and Katherine had time to look about her. What types to study! And what an atmosphere of calm, after the scene in the House of Commons she had witnessed on her visit there! A din of angry voices and uncontrolled emotion. Here if people felt anyt
