"I think we had better try it, mother, don't you?"
"Well, perhaps we had, Mary. There are four rooms that we can spare; and these ought to bring us in something handsome."
"What ought we to charge?"
"About three dollars and a half for young men, and ten dollars for a man and his wife."
"If we could get four married couples for the four rooms, that would be forty dollars a week, which would be pretty good," said Mary, warming at the thought.
"Yes, if we could, Mary, we might manage pretty well. But most married people have children, and they are such an annoyance that I wouldn't have them in the house. We will have to depend mainly on the young men."
It was, probably, three weeks after this, that an advertisement, running thus, appeared in one of the newspapers:
"BOARDING—Five or six genteel young men, or a few gentlemen and their wives, can be accommodated with boarding at No.—Cedar street. Terms moderate."
In the course of the following day, a man called and asked the terms for himself and wife.
"Ten dollars," said Mrs. Turner.