No one seemed to have any hats or bonnets, but there were a great many Japanese-looking sunshades.

And among the trees were hung lamps of coloured glass.
'I expect they light those in the evening,' said Jane.

'I do wish we lived in the future!' They walked down the path, and as they went the people on the benches looked at the four children very curiously, but not rudely or unkindly.
The children, in their turn, looked--I hope they did not stare--at the faces of these people in the beautiful soft clothes.

Those faces were worth looking at.

Not that they were all handsome, though even in the matter of handsomeness they had the advantage of any set of people the children had ever seen.