Possible Clues:

• It would be something new for the inn to give one such applause
• Group action at Carnegie Hall
• Applause for the layer's labour?
• People stand for this
• Eggs changed into what could be standing
• Below the inn, such applause is quite a new sort of thing
• Overwhelming reception
• Stormy applause
• Below the inn, such applause is something new
• Wild applause