The Landlady Full Text

After reading the landlady, I found two thing that may have prevented Billy from seeing the real landlady. One is that, she kept changing the subject with tea. In the text it states, “‘Now wait a minute,” he said. “Wait just a minute. Mulholland ... Christopher Mulholland ... wasn’t that the name of the Eton schoolboy who was on a walking-tour through the West Country, and then all of a sudden ...” “Milk?” she said. “And sugar?”’. This shows us that she change the subject with the word “milk” as asking him if he wanted milk with his tea. This show that she was trying to get him off track about thinking about Christopher Mulholland . She might not want him to think about Christopher Mulholland, because he may realize what happened to Christopher, and that it can happen to him.
In the text it stated, “Well, you see – both of these names, Mulholland and Temple, I not only seem to remember each one of them separately, so to speak, but somehow or other, in some peculiar way, they both appear to be sort of connected together as well. As though they were both famous for the same sort of thing, if you see what I mean – like … like Dempsey and Tunney, for example, or Churchill and Roosevelt.” “How amusing,” she said. “But come over here now, dear, and sit down beside me on the sofa and I’ll give you a nice cup of tea and a ginger biscuit before you go to bed.”. This is how she got Billy to stop talking about Mr. temple and Mr.Mulholland by giving him tea. She’s trying to stop him from finding out what happen to them. It was surprising that billy didn't see she was offering him tea constantly like there was something suspicious about the