landlady+bwahaha

===Yes, because the author stated there was bright fire burning, nice furniture such as comfy sofa. He also said how lucky he was to encounter this place.===

===The pub would be more congenial than a boardinghouse. It was cheaper and had nice people to talk to but when he turned to find other places, he could only see the same signs over and over again so he had no choice but to stay in the boardinghouse.===

===The door suddenly opened and a woman showed up like a jack-in-the-box.===

===The landlady is quite choosy of her guests. he author makes the landlady seems like a nice person but in quite the climax and end, you can see hints of landlady being suspicious and there is a truth behind all those kindness.===

===He is quite right in thinking that there was something peculiar and suspicious of the landlady. She was indeed too nice. The landlady thought that Billy was a young handsome gentleman.===

===Yes, because the landlady kept on cutting between his lines and she tried to avoid some questions too. She also tried to avoid the subject and come up with a new one.===

===The author is trying to show that the landlady was interested in Billy's appearance. The stuffed pets showed that she had always done that. If you put them into one, you could tell that Billy might end the same fate as the pets and the guests.===

===9. Yes, it gives the reader the suspence and it wouldn't be really that interesting if the reader knows what the landlady had been up to. Mystery should be kept a mystery.===

===Eggs were expensive and she wanted to know if he wanted it for breakfast. It seems usual.===