midday
Heaven knows where that little bit of luck came from , seeing that up to now , though you 're such a perfect listener , you have n't developed any particular talent for playing anything , have you mother darling ; and poor Dad positively preferred to be in a room where music was n't . Do you remember how he used to say he could n't think which end of a violin the noises came out of , and whichever it was he wished they would n't ? 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 .