The Patrician Part 1, Chapter 2

In which Lady Casterley, a figure of composed steel amidst the suburban calm of Ravensham House, reflects on the earnestness and intrigues surrounding her family and their political engagements during a war scare. Meanwhile, outside her gates, the conflicting voices of socialist demonstrators and their disapproving onlookers clash beneath a looming purple sky, to which she listens with a measured detachment before retreating indoors.