If you
advertise as I've seen people do before now, you could make it seem a
perfect paradise, and not be half so far out of the way, either."
"I never thought of that. _I_ take boarders? How queer!"
"Well, everything's queer, that is about you; my life has been humdrum
enough, we all know; but you seem marked out for exceptional fates--and
fortunes perhaps."
A funny light glinted in the girl's eyes.
"I'm afraid the summer boarders would think _they_ had been marked
out for hard fortune, after eating my meals. What do I know about fancy
cooking?"
"Nothing; and you don't want to. Most of them have got their stomachs so
upset by their high-spiced Frenchy dishes that they've got to have a
change of diet. You can cook fish to perfection, for I've tried you, and
make good bread, and you are naturally neat and dainty, which goes for
much. Take my cookbook home, and study up a few simple, nice recipes
this winter, so's to be ready. Don't try for too much, but do
excellently well all you undertake; and try it. You know I'll help you
all I can; I believe you'll succeed!"
"But what rooms have I?"
"I knew you'd say that, and I am prepared with an answer. There is, to
begin with, the spare room off your living-room.
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