“To be of course,” says he. “A hotel, do you not? Yes. For in which is meals and beds to sleep?”
“Almost,” says Mark, “but not quite. It’s what’s left of a hotel.”
“It is your hotel? You in personally are its keeper?”
“I guess it needs a keeper, all right,” says Mark, “but I ain’t it.”
“You take in individuals for boarding?”
“Nope.”
“Not? Oh, I was presenting myself as boarder. I wished rooming and eating.”
“You came to the wrong shop.”
“For reasonable money paid on Mondays would you not give me roomings and boardings?”
“Not even for money p-p-paid on Sundays,” says Mark.