Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. Jerome

A Pleasant Morning. -- What can one Say about the Passion Play? -- B. Lectures. -- Unreliable Description of Ober-Ammergau. -- Exaggerated Description of its Weather. -- Possibly Untruthful Account of how the Passion Play came to be Played. -- A Good Face. -- The Cultured Schoolboy and his Ignorant Relations.

I am lying in bed, or, to speak more truthfully, I am sitting up on a green satin, lace-covered pillow, writing these notes. A green satin, lace-covered bed is on the floor beside me. It is about eleven o'clock in the morning. B. is sitting up in his bed a few feet off, smoking a pipe. We have just finished a light repast of -- what do you think? you will never guess -- coffee and rolls. We intend to put the week straight by stopping in bed all day, at all events until the evening. Two English ladies occupy the bedroom next to ours. They seem to have made up their minds to also stay upstairs all day. We can hear them walking about their room, muttering. They have been doing this for the last three-quarters of an hour. They seem troubled about something.