Moberly described the men as "very dignified officials, dressed in long greyish green coats with small three-cornered hats."[12] Jourdain recalled that she noticed a cottage with a woman holding out a jug to a girl in the doorway,[3] describing it as a "tableau vivant", a living picture, much like Madame Tussauds waxworks. Moberly did not observe the cottage, but remembered that she felt the atmosphere change. She wrote: "Everything suddenly looked unnatural, therefore unpleasant; even the trees seemed to become flat and lifeless, like wood worked in tapestry.