From the reception room they went into the corridor.

Here Vronsky showed them the mechanism for ventilation on a novel system.

Then he showed them marble baths, and beds with extraordinary springs.

Then he showed them the wards one after another, the storeroom, the linen room, then the heating stove of a new pattern, then the trolleys, which would make no noise as they carried everything needed along the corridors, and many other things.

Sviazhsky, as a connoisseur in the latest mechanical improvements, appreciated everything fully.