If that will meet your views, well; if not, let us have no more words on the subject." There was a certain something in Mrs.Darlington's tone of voice that Scragg understood to mean a fixed purpose.

Moreover, his mind caught at the idea of getting boarded for something less than sixteen dollars a week.
"Where are the rooms ?" he asked gruffly.
"The third story chambers." "Front ?" "Yes." "I don't want to go to the third story." "Very well.

Then you can have the back chamber down stairs, and the front chamber above." "What will be your charge ?" "Fourteen dollars." "That will do, Peter," said Mrs.Scragg.

"Two dollars a week is considerable abatement." "It's something, of course.

But I don't like this off and on kind of business.