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(ii) Peter could see Mrs. Adis lend over the fire, taking some pot or kettle off it. 

(i) Peter did not knock because he did not want anybody to hear. 

(iv) Mrs. Adis kept the kettle at the side of the fire as it boiled over. 

(iii) Peter wanted to stay in Mrs. Adis’s house for sometime.

• he was in trouble. 
• he did not want anybody to know that he had entered the house. 
• he knew he had shot a man.

1. She knew he was a good friend of her son Tom

2. She believed that Peter would never have harmed Tom knowingly because of their friendship 

3. Probably she thought Tom would not have liked his friend to be arrested because of his mother and anyway her dead son would not come back even if Peter was arrested.

(a) A dark moonless night.

(b) A night without even a twilight and the only light seen was the light from the stars far away on the black sky. 

(c) A soundless, windless, clear night where only the sound of the dogs barking and a man’s own footsteps could be heard.

Mrs. Adis wanted to justify to the keepers that even if Peter had killed Tom, he must have done it unknowingly as they were good friends. But she did not want to face the killer of her son and wanted him to leave silently.

Peter knew that he had committed a glare crime of killing his friend Tom, he might have done it unknowingly but he could feel the loss of Mrs. Adis. Tom was her only son and Peter, being his friend, knew about their attachment. He was repentant and could understand that he had no word to console Mrs. Adis who, in spite of losing her son, saved him. So he went out silently without disturbing Mrs. Adis.

1. Mrs. Adis told the man to leave her house immediately after the keepers had crossed the house and she also instructed him to take the opposite direction so that the keepers would not be able to see him.

2. Mrs. Adis wanted the man to leave her house before Tom came back as she was expecting Tom to bring one of his friends. She wanted to arrow a situation when tom might suspect something wrong after seeing that man at her place.

She wanted Crouch to leave her place safely as Crouch was a good friend of her son Tom. She wanted to respect the friendship of her dead son. Crouch was the killer of her son but punishing him could not get her son Tom back.

The man was surprised that Mrs. Adis was helping him so much in spite of knowing very well that he was hiding from the keepers. She figured out the route for him to escape so that, the keepers could not see him. She even paid him the train fare to go to London as he did not have any money. He was speechless for a moment since he was trying to guess the reason for her kindness towards him.

Peter Crouch accepted to Mrs. Adis that he had shot a man and did not know whether that man was dead. He confessed that he had not knocked at Mrs. Adis’s door as he did not want anybody to know that he was there. The keepers were chasing him.

‘Wrung’ here means holding the mothers hand tightly to give her assurance of their cooperation.

1. She was extremely intelligent 

2. She was quite observant 

3. She was alert and quick in thinking

1. silent 

2. quarrelsome 

3. troublesome 

4. momentary

(i) Changing his mind he went to the door.

(ii) He was able to see Mrs. Adis stooping over the fire.

(iii) That had been the keepers.

(iv) The sound of footsteps on the road roused him.

(v) He could not possibly do anything else, (or) Nothing else he could possibly do. (Make negative)

(vi) She had not come in. (Use past perfect tense)

I think Mrs. Adis had taken the right decision of allowing Peter to go. She, being the mother of Tom who had been shot dead by Peter, could have ideally handled over the culprit in the hands of the keepers. But that would not have brought back Tom to her. So, she decided to give Peter a chance to reform as Tom probably would have done and she wanted to respect her son’s sentiment at that moment.

1. worse 

2. light 

3. alive 

4. sad/depressed

1. He tries to justify it 

2. He tries to hide it 

3. He tries to get sympathy 

4. He becomes offensive as offence is the best form of defense

5. He pretends to be innocent