The next morning Gloria received two Deputations of women one after the other.
The first came to petition her to do something about the Hospital.
“But surely you have one?” Gloria asked.
“We have, my Lady,” the woman replied, “but it is very old-fashioned. We have none of the new instruments and medicines we read about, which they have in Greece and in other neighbouring countries.”
“Is the King aware of this?” Gloria enquired.
“Oh, yes, my Lady, but he does not like anything that is new. He says that what was good enough for his father is good enough for him.”
The next Deputation asked her to improve the schools for the younger children.
Apparently there were very few schools and the teachers were old and very scarce.
The children therefore had little chance of getting on well whe
