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“If that is too much,” she added, “then
perhaps I can reduce it just a tiny bit. Do you
desire an egg for breakfast? Eggs are
expensive at the moment. It would be
sixpence less without the egg.”
“Five and sixpence is fine,” he answered. She is convincing because she is lowering the price of the breakfast so he would stay.

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Animals were usually a good sign in a place like this, Billy told himself; and all in all, it looked to him as though it would be a pretty decent house to stay in. Animals made the house seem nicer and safer so she manipulatied him, because the animals arent alive but he dosent know that.

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Dont trust anyone you've never met.

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Will you have another cup of tea?” “No, thank you,” Billy said. The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and he didn’t much care for it. The tea is a good symbol, because when you think of an old lady you would think of tea or coffee and in the story she gave the boy a tea that she poisned.

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The conflict is Person Vs Person. The old landlady is an antagonist meaning she is the bad guy in the story, she poisoned the tea that the young man was drinking, so he couldn't leave and she would have him forever.

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“I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away. Will you have another cup of tea?”
“No, thank you,” Billy said. The tea tasted
faintly of bitter almonds, and he didn’t much care for it.
“You did sign the book, didn’t you?”
“Oh, yes.”
“That’s good. Because later on, if I happen
to forget what you were called, then I can
always come down here and look it up.

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"She was about forty-five or fifty years old, and the moment she saw him, she gave him a warm welcoming smile. The old Lady is a good symbol because this story is about the old lady who liked young men and will let them in her house to stay over and manipulate them to stay.

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She gave him a warm welcoming smile.
“Please come in,” she said pleasantly.
She stepped aside, holding the door wide
open, and Billy found himself automatically starting forward into the house. The compulsion or, more
accurately, the desire to follow after her
into that house was extraordinarily strong. This quote shows she is convincing because she gave him a smile that made him feel welcome to come into the house.

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She smiled back
at him, and then she put out one of her white
hands and patted him comfortingly on the
knee. “How old are you, my dear?” she
asked.
“Seventeen.”
“Seventeen!” she cried. “Oh, it’s the
perfect age! She is manipulative because she is saying that he is perfect and is trying to act like she's nice and comforting him, but is really a murder.