Book | Present | Clarissa
Pages 16-17

"It is probably the Queen, thought Mrs. Dalloway, coming out of Mulberry's with her flowers; the Queen. And for a second she wore a look of extreme dignity standing by the flower shop in the sunlight while the car passed at a foot's pace, with its blinds drawn."

The traffic was quite backed up as the police made room for the passing motor car.

Clarissa thinks of the possible royalty and how she, like royalty, would be giving a party. "She stiffened a little; so she would stand at the top of her stairs."