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Mrs. J. Perhaps you are right. (A pause.) I wonder when the advertisement will appear.

A. To-morrow morning, probably, and we may expect applications at any time afterward.

Mrs. J. Then it would be best to fix on a price for board at once.

A. Yes, I suppose so.

Mrs. J. How would twelve dollars a week do?

A. It wouldn’t do at all. We couldn’t pay expenses.

Mrs. J. But I’m afraid if we charge such high prices we shall not be able to fill our rooms.

A. That’s just the means to accomplish it. Many people judge of the style and reputation of a house by the price asked. You ought to insist on at least fifteen or twenty dollars for the best rooms, and a little less for those not so desirable.

Mrs. J. But that won’t correspond with the advertisement, where I say I take boarders for company, rather than to make money.

A. I don’t think that will ever be noticed; but if it should, you can say with truth, that you could not pay your expenses if you charged less.

Mrs. J. Well, I hope we may be successful, for I have made such an outlay in fitting up the house, that our income will this year be far less than usual, and our expenses correspondingly larger.