The landlady is about main protagonist Billy, and how he gets trapped in the landlady’s house.
Billy is trying to find a new job, and once he gets off the train, a porter tells him that Dragon and Bell is a good place to stay for the night and he should stay there, but if Dragon and Bell is full, you could always stay at bed and breakfast.
It was cold and raining so Billy became weary and instead of going to Dragon and Bell, he went to Bed and Breakfast. He decided to stay there because the price was cheap and the lady was nice. Once he got his room all set up, he was asked to sign the guest book, and above him was 2 names, which he later found out to be the names of missing people.
After a while he started to become suspicious and when he was drinking tea, his tea had a weird almond taste to it. A drink with a bitter almond to it, especially in something that shouldn’t have a almond taste is probably rigged with cyanide which is a poison. He doesn’t find out, but later that night, he mysteriously died.
The moral of this story is to not be so trusting and not to be afraid to ask questions since Billy was speculating but he didn’t ask anything about it.