Well, that's true; it is a rather exaggerated description of all the men who want to visit Miss Pross's Ladybird. But that's only half of what's happening with the hundreds of people. Remember, their house "was a wonderful corner for echoes." And the sounds of hundreds of footsteps is a constant theme throughout the novel and certainly in this house. The echoing footsteps were a foreshadowing of what was to come--the sound of a Revolution. This constant motif is part of the impending "giant crowd of people, with its rush and roar, bearing down upon them."
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