Sentence:  Six anxious inquiries of marble-fronted-hotel clerks about rates; and twice when she angrily made it plain she couldn't afford it, and quit the <WSD>caravanserai</WSD> where Andy and Mahala and Mrs. Boyle were to loll in kitchenette-bedizened splendour and hunted up a smaller hotel that looked like a private house with obesity. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An upscale hotel.