The String Quartet (Unabridged)

The String Quartet is a short story written by Virginia Woolf and published in 1921.
Well, here we are, and if you cast your eye over the room you will see that Tubes and trams and omnibuses, private carriages not a few, even, I venture to believe, landaus with bays in them, have been busy at it, weaving threads from one end of London to the other. Yet I begin to have my doubts...