LIKE ONE WHO HAS ONLY read books and heard tales of a foreign land, and finally goes there and sees the real thing – thus Eliza at the Opera. Not so much for the place (which was only a building) as for the people, and not so much for the ones with titles and formal ranks (viz. the Raadspensionary, and diverse Regents and Magistrates with their fat jewelled wives) as for the ones who had the power to move the market.