upon her words. At last he said:

"You spoke, just now, about taking it with you. Of course, you don't
think of leaving Lion's Head?"

She did not answer for so long a time that he thought she had not perhaps
heard him or heeded what he said; but she answered, finally: "We did
think of it. The day you come we had about made up our minds to leave."

"Oh!"

"But I've been thinkin' of something since you've been here that I don't
know but you'll say is about as wild as wantin' to buy a
three-hundred-dollar picture with a week's board." She gave a short,
self-scornful laugh; but it was a laugh, and it relieved the tension.

"It may not be worth any more," he said, glad of the relief.

"Oh, I guess it is," she rejoined, and then she waited for him to prompt
her.

"Well?"

"Well, it's this; and I wanted to ask you, anyway. You think there'd be
any chance of my gettin' summer folks to come here and board if I was to
put an advertisement in a Boston paper? I know it's a lonesome place, and
there ain't what you may call attractions. But the folks from the hotels,
sometimes, when they ride over in a stage to see the view, praise up the
scenery, and I guess it is sightly. I know that well enough; and I ain't
afraid but what I can do for boarders as well as some, if not better.