Exiting the courthouse, Catt found herself again in the square. There were the rows of trees, there was the raised terrace, there was the palace with the mountains behind it. It looked very different than it had the night of the festival. It was all wide empty spaces, and smooth stone surfaces shining in the sun. There were relatively few people moving about in the large space, and all of them were either finely dressed like ladies and lords, or else in various professional uniforms, white robes, clerica...