The hotel was in a quiet street and seemed to agree with one who needed a good sleep after a tiring trip. The woman manager showed me to my room. When I asked her about dinner, she said it was served at six and I had missed it.
"Never mind, I’m not very hungry." I said in a friendly voice. "I’ll just have a drink and then go to a restaurant."
"What!" she said, raising her eyebrows (眉毛). "This is a respectable (体面的) hotel, young man. If you want, better go somewhere else." She spoke as if a glass of beer were a erous liquid.
I felt my way back through the dark streets after dining outside. I knocked loudly on the door but nobody answered. It was a long time before the lady opened the door. "What’s going on" she said coldly. "Guests are to be back by ten. The rule is for everyone."
I went to my room and tried to sleep. The bed was hard and the sheets and blankets were damp( 潮湿的). Worst of all, the whole hotel trembled when the church clock struck every quarter of an hour. Just before dawn, I finally went to sleep.
"Did you sleep well last night, young man" asked the old lady the next morning.
"Truly speaking, I don’t think I could manage another night here." I replied. "I hardly slept at all."
"That’s because you were up all night drinking!" She said disapprovingly.
I didn’t want to stay for one more night because ______.