I am going to tell you what I discovered that day we first went aboard the houseboat.

I put my hand on the stove quite by accident that morning.

The stove was so hot that it burned my hand." "You don't say ?" "Yes.

Now explain how that stove happened to be hot," continued Harriet.
"That's easy.

Somebody had had a fire in it," nodded Jane.
"Exactly.