How white the broad stairway was! Elnora had been climbing those stairs for years and never told her they were marble.

Of course, she thought they were wood.

Probably the upper hall was even grander than this.

She went over to the fountain, took a drink, climbed to the first landing and looked around her, and then without thought to the second.
There she came opposite the wide-open doors and the entrance to the auditorium packed with people and a crowd standing outside.

When they noticed a tall woman with white face and hair and black dress, one by one they stepped a little aside, so that Mrs.Comstock could see the stage.