It's still raining outside, but there's a canopy over the train platform. Yet even so, when the train steadily stopped at the platform, the dense steam mist emerging from the bottom of the carriages still carried a chilliness not present on ordinary days.
Earl Belindel, Earl Edington, and Earl Hawthorn walked at the front to greet the arrivals, with a red carpet already laid out at the carriage door. As the carriage door opened with the sound of metal friction and transmission rods moving, the guards who came out first quickly laid a metal plank across the gap between the carriage and the platform as a footrest.
The band started to play music, the royal maids came out, opened their umbrellas, and stood at the side of the carriage to shield against the rainwater falling from above the door.
