"Let us go back there and pass the night, trying thus the bed and breakfast, with a view to seeing what they are like--although they did say in Edinburgh that nobody thinks of living in these wayside hostelries." Back we went, accordingly, and after ordering dinner came out and strolled idly up the main street.

A small sign in the draper's window, heretofore overlooked, caught our eye.

'House and Garden To Let Inquire Within.' Inquiring within with all possible speed, we found the draper selling winceys, the draper's assistant tidying the ribbon-box, the draper's wife sewing in one corner, and the draper's baby playing on the clean floor.

We were impressed favourably, and entered into negotiations without delay.
"The house will be in the loaning; do you mind, ma'am ?" asked the draper.

(We have long since discovered that this use of the verb is a bequest from the Gaelic, in which there is no present tense.