How does the literary device "point of view" operate in Mansfield's "Miss Brill"?

Point of view is interesting
in Mansfield's "Miss Brill." The opening line indicates clearly for us that the point of
view is focalized through a limited third person narrator who tells
us about the story by focusing on Miss Brill's
experience:

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Although it was so brilliantly fine--the blue sky
powdered with gold and great spots of light like white wine splashed over the Jardins
Publiques-- Miss Brill was glad that she had decided on her fur.

Third
person narrators stand outside the story and provide a "bird's eye" view,
so to speak, into the events and personalities and the effects of events. These
narrators provide objective reports in the narrative that may be
more or less objective but certainly quite different from a subjective first person
point of view. These narrators may also be more or less distanced in
proximity: they may report the narrative through a great emotional distance
from events, personalities, and effects or they may report from a near proximity and
even comment upon events, personalities and effects. 

Limited third person narrators, which
are different from omniscient third person narrators, focalize the
narrative through the experience of one character (that character may change from time
to time in various chapters of a book but is consistent in a short story). This sort of
narrator has access to the focalizing character's thoughts, feelings, motives, and inner
perceptions and reactions.

In "Miss Brill," the limited
third person narrator has a very near proximity and, though
objective, provides a report on the
stream of consciousness thoughts and
reactions of Miss Brill. This stream of consciousness element in the narrator's report
is what makes the point of view in "Miss Brill" so interesting: we "hear" what Miss
Brill thinks as she thinks it through the narrator's
report:

Miss
Brill had often noticed--there was something funny about nearly all of them. They were
odd, silent, nearly all old, and from the way they stared they looked as though they'd
just come from dark little rooms or even--even
cupboards!