"She had been there...three Viceroys...the state of India!" (180).
Viceroys are men who rule a country or large region as a representative of a king. For Virginia Woolf to claim that Lady Bruton had stayed with such men is really allowing the reader to grasp the understanding of the Dalloway's and their friends. They all have their images and pronounce them to everyone. People are aware of everyone else's business throughout the story. Virginia includes the Viceroys and Lady Bruton's connection to them to also show Clarissa's personality in the sense that when she explains them, she does not really seem phased by the fact that there are people of upper class there. She does not care about social ranking, but about the people and how they behave. That is the point Virginia Woolf is trying to make as she uses references throughout her novel of famous figures and places.
"Viceroy." Merriam-Webster Dictionary. 27 September 2009. 2009.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/darwin_charles.shtml
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