It seems that Miss Galina disliked such banquets, and today she had other troubles on her mind as well.
Miss Galina, who was extremely sensitive, detected Shard's gaze among the crowd below, and shook her head imperceptibly at him, the meaning of the gesture unclear.
Instead of speaking from the staircase, Queen Diana, surrounded by the princesses, princes, and noble ladies of the Cavendish family, made her way to the second-floor terrace to the sound of music, along a cleared path from the stairs. Standing there, she was not only visible to the guests on the second floor and in the courtyard below, but even passersby on Silver Cross Avenue and people on the second and third floors of nearby places like Saint Delan Square could see her.
This terrace was the very place where the king officially addressed the nation.
