What curious episode occurs in the study?
Early in the morning a curious episode happened. The clergyman and his wife were woke up by noise in the study. Creeping downstairs, they heard the sound of chink of money being taken from the clergyman’s desk to their amazement the room appeared to be empty. He and his wife looked under the desk and behind the curtains and even up the chimney but nobody was there. Yet the desk had been opened and the housekeeping money was also missing.
Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?
How is Ausable different from other secret agents?
What does Horace Danby like to collect?
How did a book become a turning point in Richard Ebright’s life?
What kind of a person is Mme Loisel — why is she always unhappy?
Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion? What does he first think about the place?
Why is Bholi’s father worried about her?
Why was the twentieth century called the ‘Era of the Book’?
Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?
What does she do to help him? Is she wise in this?
Do you think the lawyer was gullible? How could he have avoided being taken for a ride?
If you were in Noodle’s place, how would you handle Think-Tank’s mistakes?
What are Hari Singh’s reactions to the prospect of receiving an education? Do they change over time? (Hint: Compare, for example, the thought: “I knew that once I could write like an educated man there would be no limit to what I could achieve” with these later thoughts: “Whole sentences, I knew, could one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees. It was a simple matter to steal — and sometimes just as simple to be caught. But to be a really big man, a clever and respected man, was something else.”) What makes him return to Anil?
Why was the twentieth century called the ‘Era of the Book’?
How can one become a scientist, an economist, a historian... ? Does it simply involve reading many books on the subject? Does it involve observing, thinking and doing experiments?
What would have happened to Matilda if she had confessed to her friend that she had lost her necklace?
Does Anil realise that he has been robbed?
What does he say about Lutkins?
Why does not Anil hand the thief over to the police? Do you think most people would have done so? In what ways is Anil different from such employers?
Why is he tempted to keep Tricki on as a permanent guest?