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?
What experiments and projects does he then undertake?
What is he “a fairly successful hand” at?
Why are books referred to as a man’s best companion? Which is your favourite book and why? Write a paragraph about that book.
How is Ausable different from other secret agents?
Why do Bholi’s parents accept Bishamber’s marriage proposal?
Does Anil realise that he has been robbed?
After his first day’s experience with the hack driver the lawyer thinks of returning to New Mullion to practise law. Do you think he would have reconsidered this idea after his second visit?
Does the narrator serve the summons that day?
Why did Bholi at first agree to an unequal match? Why did she later reject the marriage? What does this tell us about her?
Why does he steal every year?