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"On you've beenwondering about that?" Mr. Humfries seemed amused. "Well, the answer's simple. They couldn't afford it. unless –”
　　He paused.
　　"Unless you make special prices for them? is thatit?"
　　"More or less. They don't know, usually, that they are special prices, or if they do realise it, theythink it's because they're oldcustomers."
　　"And it isn't justthat?"
　　"Well, Colonel Luscombe, I am running a hotel. Icouldn't afford actually to lose money."
　　"But how can that pay you?""It's a question ofatmosphere…. Strangers coming to this country (Americans, inparticular, because they are the ones who have the money) have their own rather queerideas of what England is like. I'm not talking, youunderstand, of the rich business