summer noon
Her delicate face straightened with an expression of sensitive pride . But her anger was short-lived . She speedily forgave him . The sunshine and fresh air , the radiant green of the young leaves , the rather superb spectacle of wealth , vigour , beauty , presented to her by the brilliant London world in the brilliant , summer noon was exhilarating , tending to lightness of heart . There was poetry of an opulent , resonant sort in the brave show . Just then a company of Life Guards clattered by , in splendour of white and scarlet and shining helmets . The rattle of accoutrements , and thud of the hoofs of their trotting horses , detached itself arrestingly from the surrounding murmur of many voices and ceaseless roar of the traffic at Hyde Park Corner .