Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night : a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.
Compared to the sunlit hallway, the interior that stretched beyond them seemed formidably dark, but as she stepped inside, cadelabras came into view, along with black-and-white marble floors, large mahogany tables with red velvet chairs, a slumbering fire, mezzanine, bridges, ladders, railings, and then books - books and books and books.