Montag, 12. Januar 2009

The Landlady by Roald Dahl

There is a seventen years old boy named Billy. He traveled to Bath because his superior has given him a contract. On his way in Bath he saw a sing with "Bed and Breakfast" on it and he saw through the window. He found it really nice but he wanted to look after the " Bell and Dragon". Then he saw another sign at the house and he went to the door and ringing the bell. A lady "popped" out like a jack-in-the-box. She told him to come in and he did. The Lady showed him his room and he ask him for sign the guestbook. He went downstairs in the sitting-room and did it. In the book he saw two names who sounded somehow familiar, but he didn't know where he had heard the names before. He thought of a newspapers headline and thinking about that the names had stand there. The landlady cames in the sitting- room ,too ,with a cup of tea for him. He sat down next to the landlady at the sofa and saw a parrot who was dead. The landlady told him that the Dachshund, who lay in front of the fire, was dead too.
The Lady asked him if he had sign the book because if she forget how Billy were, she can looked it up. Billy asked she if there any other guest except them in the last three years and she told him that he was the only one.