Waiting+for+his+Fordship

What does this scene do? What is the scene's purpose? How is this scene constructed?
 * Skip to the next scene after the last chapter
 * introduce the controller's office
 * Set up the main characters ' moods as they wait for Mond
 * give a description of Mond's office and what he has in the room
 * set the passages setting(Mond's office)
 * introduce the moods of Bernard, Helmholtz and John
 * Give a glimpse of what Mond finds important(his biography of Ford)
 * From the narrator's point of view
 * jumping between what each character is doing in the room
 * starts the scene without Mond, building the anticipation to what he will say about the riot
 * Does not just jump right into their conversation they will have later but instead sets up everyone's moods and also the room as we wait for the Controller to make an apperance