and keep going till you reach a door with your number on it. When
you are in your room, you see the things that are considered more
important than the people.

"There's an entire room set apart for the sole purpose of
bathing!--and the room with the bed in it is separate from the
sitting-room. You can go in one and stay a while, and go in another
and stay a while, and then go in the third--and you have a different
feeling for each room that you're in. I'd rather see everything at
once, as I can in my cabin. And that bed! If my little bed at home
could be brought here and set up beside this hotel wonder, the very
walls would cry out.... I wish I could sleep in my little bed
tonight, and hear the wind howling over the mountain.

"The dining-room is the finest thing I ever saw; I doubt if the
kings and queens of old times ever ate in richer surroundings.
There are rows of immense mirrors along the wall and gold borders
--and then the tables! I wonder what would happen if anybody should
spread newspapers on one of these wonderful tables and use them for
a tablecloth? At home, we can just reach out and take what we want
off the stove, and help our plates without rising. It's so
different here! After you've worried over crooked lists of things
to eat that you've never heard of, and have hurried to select so the
waiter won't have to lose any time, the waiter goes away. And when
he puts something before you, you don't know what to call it,
because it's been so long, you've forgotten its name on that awful
pasteboard. But there's something pleasant when you've finished,
in just getting up and walking away, not caring who cleans up the
dishes!