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I'm sorry, Madame, but it's essential that we go through. Will you give way? Will you be so good as to let me pass here?”

It was a dull, overcast day, and was misting. Finally Henry said to me, “I hope you've got rubbers on.”

I said, “No, but it doesn't matter.”

He said, “I think if we get under these ropes and run for it, we can make it.” So we bent down and went under the ropes and went across the lawns, which you're not supposed to walk on. We went running across the lawns out of the crowd. By that device we got up close to the masonry of the Capitol and then we found persons who could tell us where the door was. We found a policeman who, when he saw our tickets, was willing to tell us how to get to the door that our tickets told us to go to.

We finally got there. We arrived in the statuary Hall and out through the rotunda, showing our blue tickets, I think, to everybody. We were not being treated at any point as though we were of the slightest importance. At the time it didn't make any impression on me because I hadn't realized that there's a frightful super-super importance given to public officers in Washington. I hadn't realized that. Just so long as I was treated reasonably well and shown where to go I didn't care.