Midday
But what a mercy , what a real mercy and solution of our difficulties , that I 've got this one thing that perhaps I shall be able to do really well , I do thank God on my knees for this . There are four other boarders here , -- three Germans and one Swede , and the Swede and two of the Germans are women ; and five outside people come in for the midday dinner every day , all Germans , and four of them are men . They have what they call _ Abonnementskarten _ for their dinners , so much a month . Frau Berg keeps an Open Midday Table -- it is written up on a board on the street railing -- and charges 1 mark 25 pfennigs a dinner if a month 's worth of them is taken , and 1 mark 50 pfennigs if they 're taken singly . So everybody takes the month 's worth , and it is going to be rather fun , I think . Today I was solemnly presented to the diners , first collectively by Frau Berg as _ Unser junge englische Gast _ , Mees -- no , I ca n't write what she made of Cholmondeley , but some day I 'll pronounce it for you ; and really it is hard on her that her one English guest , who might so easily have been Evans , or Dobbs , or something easy , should have a name that looks a yard long and sounds an inch short -- and then each of them to me singly by name . They all made the most beautiful stiff bows .