CHARACTERS
This is the main character of the story.
Who is Billy Weaver?
Billy arrives in this city.
What is Bath?
This word describes how Billy feels drawn to the house.
What is “compelled”?
This word means quickly and with purpose.
What is briskly?
“BED AND BREAKFAST… BED AND BREAKFAST…”
What is Billy being drawn/compelled toward the house?
This character owns the boarding house.
Who is the landlady?
Billy is traveling for this reason.
What is starting a job?
There are only this many names in the guest book.
What is two?
This word means strange or unusual.
What is peculiar?
“It’s all ready for you, my dear.”
What is the landlady was expecting him?
Billy is this age.
What is 17?
Billy chooses the boarding house because of this.
What is the sign in the window (Bed and Breakfast)?
The guest book entries are strange because they are this.
What are years old?
This word means slightly crazy or eccentric.
What is dotty?
“We have it all to ourselves.”
What is there are no other guests?
The landlady prefers this type of guest.
What is young men (young gentlemen)?
This happens immediately when Billy rings the bell.
What is the door opens right away?
The landlady says this about the previous guests.
What is “He never left”?
This word means to give off (a smell or feeling).
What is emanate?
“He never left.”
What is the guest is dead / still in the house?
These are the two previous guests mentioned.
Who are Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple?
This is the final thing Billy drinks before the story ends.
What is tea?
This detail reveals what likely happened to the guests.
What is the animals are stuffed/preserved?
This smell is associated with poison in the story.
What are bitter almonds?
“I stuff all my little pets myself.”
What is the landlady preserves dead animals (and possibly people)?