Lovely, comfortable place, the Washington School Inn. The room was great--Shelley would have loved it. If only . . . The bed was huge and soft, what they call a feather-bed, I guess, which would not normally have been my choice. I prefer a firm mattress, but this one folded me in its embrace and I slept.

Very warm, nice comfortable, friendly people, a good breakfast--this is the kind of place in which...