Around the chapel was a great collection of black vehicles with sham-tailed mortuary horses; several of the families present must have left themselves bare in order to clothe a coffin in the way they deemed seemly.

Emma and her sister had made their own funeral garments, and the former, in consenting for the sake of poor Jane to receive the aid which Mutimer offered, had insisted through Alice that there should be no expenditure beyond the strictly needful.

The carriage which conveyed her and Kate alone followed the hearse from Hoxton; it rattled along at a merry pace, for the way was lengthy, and a bitter wind urged men and horses to speed.

The occupants of the box kept up a jesting colloquy.
Impossible to read the burial service over each of the dead separately; time would not allow it.

Emma and Kate found themselves crowded among a number of sobbing women, just in time to seat themselves before the service began.