Chapter ThirteenIf you know Edinburgh, you will know the Assembly Rooms in George Street. Perhaps you have also been there. If not, then I will explain that they were built specifically to allow ladies such as me the opportunity of dancing with as many men as propriety would permit. The Assembly Rooms' elegance is unsurpassed even in Edinburgh, the most elegant city anywhere and their position right in the centre of the principal street of the New Town speaks volumes for their importance.
I know that some speak of Princes Street as something special. I do not agree. Oh, yes there are splendid views of the Castle, and now the gardens blossom where once the North Loch festered, but that is all there is to it. The architecture is mediocre, and at both east and west end the wind could blow on
