And one day I came across this tiny cottage. It was empty. I found out who owned it.
It was a farmer. I went to see him. Farmers also get up very early. He was milking his cows.
I asked him if I could rent his cottage.‘You can't live there!’ he cried. ‘It's got no conveniences, no running water, no nothing!’”
‘I want to live there,’ I said. ‘I'm a romantic. I've fallen in love with it. Please rent it to me.’”
‘You're mad,’ he said. ‘But if you insist, you're welcome to it. The rent will be ten pence a week.’”
“‘Here's one month's rent in advance,’ I said, giving him 40p. ‘And thank you so much!’”
“How super!” Matilda cried. “So suddenly you had a house all of your own! But how did you pluck up the courage to tell the aunt?”
“That was tough,” Miss Honey said. “But I steeled myself to do it.
One night, after I had cooked her supper, I went upstairs and packed the few things I possessed in a cardboard box
and came downstairs and announced I was leaving. ‘I've rented a house,’ I said.
“My aunt exploded. ‘Rented a house!’ she shouted. ‘How can you rent a house when you have only one pound a week in the world?’
‘I've done it,’ I said. ‘And how are you going to buy food for yourself?’ ‘I'll manage,’ I mumbled and rushed out of the front door.”
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