So you're cal'latin' to start a boardin'-house, eh?
Risky things, boardin'-houses are.

There's a couple of hundred launched every year and not more'n ten ever make a payin' v'yage.

Let's hear what your plan is, the whole of it." Fighting down her impatience Thankful went into details concerning her plan.

She explained why she had thought of it and her growing belief that it might be successful.

Mr.Cobb listened.
"Humph!" he grunted, when she had finished.