But he was hurried on before he could form a clear idea of the gathering.

He judged they knew Howard and not himself, and that they wondered who he was.

This Howard, it seemed, was a person of importance.

But then he was also merely Graham's guardian.
That was odd.
There came a passage in twilight, and into this passage a footway hung so that he could see the feet and ankles of people going to and fro thereon, but no more of them.

Then vague impressions of galleries and of casual astonished passers-by turning round to stare after the two of them with their red-clad guard.
The stimulus of the restoratives he had taken was only temporary.