1. Down a corridor (on the other side of plushy velvet the lounge bar, past comfortable ladies knitting, and mothers with eyes only for their babies and dutiful people treating elderly relatives to afternoon tea) gold leaves fall past a window.
2. The waiter comments on the chill in the orangery. As he leaves us, he touches the floor to check the heating has come on.
3. A bowl of hot red spicy bean soup.
