This man--a Mr.Forrester--came to me with his wife, very keen to take a house in that precise neighborhood.
I asked him the lowest rent to start with, and I told him that the late owner had died of typhoid there, and that the drains had practically not been touched since." "And yet he took it ?" "Took it within twenty-four hours," Mr.Waddington continued.

"He seemed to like the way I put it to him, and instead of being scared he went to an expert in drains, who advised him that there was only quite a small thing wrong.

He's doing up some of the rooms and moving in in a fortnight." "This sounds as though there might be an opening for an honest house-agent," Burton suggested.
Mr.Waddington looked dubious.
"It's never been tried.

Just this once it came off, but as a regular thing I should have no confidence in it.

People like to be gulled.