past ago before
A few days  [MASK]  , the millionaire went by the poor man's room to ask him how he  enjoyed  himself.To his great  surprise  , he found that the poor man had moved out of the hotel, back to his park bench.When the millionaire asked why, the man said, "You see, when I'm  down  here sleeping on the bench.I always dream I'm up there in the hotel.It's a wonderful dream.But when I was up there in the hotel, I dreamed I was  still  here on this cold bench.It was  a terrible  dream and I could not get any sleep at all."