Outwardly, gazing riverward through the dusty pane, she bore herself with utmost serenity.

"Hah! and look yondah another incredib'!" She pointed riverward across the Square.

"Whatever is it?" asked G. Mrs. Townley pointed riverwards to where a thin column of blue-grey smoke rose and hung like a cloud in the hot, still air.

A little later they were walking riverward toward a brilliant orange sky, against which the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument loomed gray and majestic.