In each of the single rooms, there is a bed, bureau, washstand, chair, and two shelves about six or seven feet high, with a calico curtain nailed to the top one and hanging to the floor, making a hat shelf and clothes closet. Each cottage has a bathroom but the hot water supply seems complicated. A sign says your guide will bring it to you when needed. Mrs. Worldly, feeling vaguely uncomfortable and hungry, is firmly determined to go home on the next morning train. Before she has had much time to reflect, Mrs. Kindhart reports that lunch is nearly ready.
Guides come with canisters of hot water, and everyone goes to dress.
Town clothes disappear, and woods clothes emerge. This by no means makes a dowdy picture. The men put on their oldest country clothes too. Presently a gong is sounded. The floral decoration is of laurel leaves in vases made of preserve jars covered with birch bark.