`` let us get the meeting over with ; and i hope to god she thinks better of it , '' he said , and two days later at morning their party was assembled in the cusipata courtyard : the twenty aviators all in their fresh coats of green and their white trousers scrubbed and lemon-bleached and mended ; hammond in his handsome brown coat which did not show the stains of travel , and his sash of ambassadorship ; mrs. pemberton in her black dress ; and granby undeniably splendid in the red cloak .