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FIND OUT
1.What does
Ans. HoraceDanby like
Horace tocollect?
Danby likes
to collect
2. Why does rareand
he stealeveryyear? expensive books.
Ans. He bsE2019
stoleevery
year,so thathe
collect.
Each year,he could buy the
rareand
3. Who is plannedcarefully,so as to steal expensivebooks that he lovedto
speakingtoHorace enoughtolast twelvemonths.
Ans. A ladystanding Danby?
inthedoorway is
and was dressed in speaking toHoraceDanby.
have been robbed red.She said she had come She
by Horace. justintime,or was youngandpretty
family Thus,she pretendedto elseherfamily
livingatShotover pretended be one ofthe members would
Grange. ofthe
4. Who isthe
real culpritinthe story?
Ans. The real
inthestoryisthe
culprit
Iiving
at ShotoverGrange. womnan who pretended tobe a member ofthefamily
tookaway all She tricked Horace Danby intobelieving
thejewelsthatwere her,and cleverly
keptinthesafe.
THINK ABOUT IT
1.Didyou beginto suspect,beforethe
end ofthe
HoraceDanby took hertobe? Ifso,atwhat pointstory,
thattheladywas nottheperson
didyou realise
this,
and how?
Ans.Yes,we beginto suspectbeforethe end
ofthe storythattheladywas nottheperson
Horace Danby took herto be.She was unusually calm on seeingHorace.Thisseemed
strange.When she did not call
the police,and instead
asked Horace to take out all the
jewelsfrom the safe,even if
itmeant breakingitopen,itseems suspicious.
Moreover, it
seemed highlyunlikely thatshe would forgetthe number combination
to open the safe.
Therefore,itwas evident
before
the storyended,thattheladywas notthepersonHorace
had takenherto be.
2. Whatare the subtleways inwhich the ladymanages to deceiveHorace Danby into
thinking
she is the ladyofthe house?Why doesn'tHorace suspectthatsomethingis
wrong?
A10
Ans.Herconfidentwalk.ber familiaritywiththe dog Sherry,heract oftouching up her make.
fromthe rightplaceare enough to deceive
and theease withwhich she picks acigarette
up
anybody.Horace was too frightened to thinkproperly, suspectanything.
so he didn't
3. "HoraceDanby was good and respectable– but not completely honest". Why do vou
thinkthis description isapt forHorace?Why can'the be categorised as a typical
thief?
TALK ABOUT IT
work because he
hindered Horace inhis
Ans. Flowers a disorder
fever,
from theattackofhay
suffered by an allergy
nose and caused
throat,
affectingthe whenever
dust. Due tothisproblem,
topollen o r tosneezeand
he began
he came closetoflowers,
couldbe caught.