"And how do you make your boarding-house pay," she asked, "if there is no charge for residence ?" "How d'you mean--pay ?" asked the witch.

"Pay whom?
And what with?
Look here, if you will come and live here you shall have a little Wednesday every week on the stairs, under license from me.

Harold the Broomstick is apt to shirk cleaning the stairs, but as it happens, he is keeping company with an O-Cedar Mop in Kentish Town, and I've no doubt she would come over and do the stairs thoroughly every Tuesday night.

Besides, we have overalls in stock at only two and eleven three----" "Oh, I like your merry mood," said Miss Ford, laughing heartily.

"You must remember to talk like that when you come to my Wednesdays.