Answer

The list shows just how many rooms have been, in some ways, significant in the decline of their relationship. There rooms have variety from ‘the room in Paris’ to ‘the little damp room with the seaweed smell’. This shows a sense of decline, as Paris is a romantic city and could have been the place they went for a romantic holiday, but here the relationship started to decline. The damp room could be a seaside resort hotel room in somewhere like Bournemouth, showing how the relationship declined in terms of the places they visited. This room doesn’t have the romance of the Paris one. Instead it is irritating ‘that ceaseless maddening sound of the tide’. In all these rooms ‘things died’.