Summary of The Landlady

             The story, The Landlady, is about a young man, who is on a business trip in a little English town called Bath.
             The young mans name is Billy, and he is from London. In Bath he is going to this hotel, The Bell and Dragon, but on his way there he sees this little "Bed and breakfast"-place, nothing big, just a normal, old house, owned by an old lady.
             In the beginning he wants to leave and go to the hotel, but something strange is driving him to go press the doorbell, and even before he had moved his finger, a middle-aged lady opened the door.
             She asks him to come inside, and he feels an extremely desire to, and does so.
             The lady is very kind, but a little weird. There is so gests other then him, in the house, and it seams like it has been a long time sins there were. She tells him that his bed already is made, and that he has the third floor all to himself. Later on we find out that he actually hasn't.
             Billy just wanted to pack out his things and go to bed, but the nice lady insisted the he had to go downstairs and sign the guest-book. So only a few minutes later he was entering the living room, a nice fire were burning in the fireplace, a dog was sleeping in front of it. All worm and cosy.
             He found the book, and wrote his name, there were only two other names on this page. The names sounded kind of familiar, he thought. He said the two names out loud, but then the landlady entered the room and asked what was wrong. He answered that he thought he knew the names, and asked if they were famous ore something like that. She said that they weren't, but they were very hansom end good-looking young men. Just like him. Then he noticed the dates, one of them were two years ago, and the other one three. When he asked why, she just answered that the time had gone very fast.
             The landlady had a tea tray in front of here, while talking, but then she sat it down and asked Billy to come joining here fo
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