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The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II

January 16, 1922

To Anne Estelle Rice

Can you tell me the name of a Hotel in Paris, that has an ascenseur that really does go up and down and isn't too terribly unsympathetic? I simply don't know one nowadays and shall have to sit on my luggage while someone looks. Last time I stayed at one that Cook's recommended with one of those glass-topped beds and strong tea coming out of the hot water tap. They plucked me to my last pinfeather for these luxuries. I don't mind where it is as long as the lift will go up as well as down—so important, that. In Switzerland the lifts only go down, page 176 never up. It's a mystery to me. I'd like Fergusson's views on it or Blum's.

K.: ‘How does it happen that this lift never goes up?’

Swiss (smiling): ‘It always goes down, Madame.’

K.:? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Swiss.:! ! ! ! ! ! !