“I’ll have to give you single rooms, if that one is not satisfactory,” was the reply. “All my double rooms are filled.”
“Isn’t 36 a double room?” Katherine inquired.
“Yes, but it’s occupied. I just sent a man up there.”
“Excuse the question,” Miss Ladd said curiously; “but why did you put one person in a double room when it was the only double room you had and there were vacant single rooms in the house?”
The hotel keeper smiled pleasantly, as if the question was the simplest in the world to answer.
“Because he insisted on having it and paid me double rate in advance,” was the landlord’s startling reply.