"At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor."

What does "forlorn" mean in the context of this passage?

What does "facilities" mean in the context of this sentence?

"As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities�he had no comfortable family standing behind him, and he was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world."