They
were also fortunate to find a custodian taking sightseers through the
other official apartments so that they saw more than the casual
visitor does in one visit. They visited in turn, the Green Room, the
Red Room, and the Blue Room, saw the state dining-room with its
magnificent shining table about which it was easy to imagine famous
guests seated, and enjoyed a peep into the conservatory at the end of
the corridor. They did not go up to the executive offices on the
second floor, knowing that probably a crowd was before them and that
an opportunity to see the President on the streets of the city was
likely to present itself.
"Well, I shouldn't want to live there," sighed Betty, as they came
down the steps, "It is very grand and very stately, but not much like
a home. I suppose, though, the private rooms of the President and his
family are cozy, if one could see them."
"Beyond a doubt," agreed Mrs. Littell.
They lunched at one of the large hotels, and afterward Mrs. Littell
had a club engagement. The girls, she announced, might spend the
afternoon as they chose, and she would pick them all up at five
o'clock with Carter and the car.
"Esther and I want to see 'The Heart of June,'" announced Libbie,
who found romance enough to satisfy her in the motion-pictures.
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