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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:“Sure, yes—right away! Change of air will do you good. I’ll join you presently!” If only she would go till Helen could depart! I’d have the devil of a time explaining afterward, of course, but anything would be better than to have Lavinia see a ghost. Why, that sensitive little woman couldn’t bear to have a mouse say boo at her— and what would she say to a ghost in her own living-room?(a) What does the narrator want his wife to do and why? (b) How will it help him? (c) Find a word in the passage similar in meaning: ‘sounds of dislike’. |
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Answer» (a) The narrator agrees that Lavinia should go back to her grandmother immediately. Change of air will do her good. (b) John will get time to explain the situation to his wife coolly after Helen’s ghost departs. (c) boo |
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