Class 10 English - Footprints Without Feet - Chapter A Question of Trust NCERT Solutions | Who is the real culprit in the story?

Horace Danby was a meticulous planner but still he faltered. Where did he go wrong and why?

What does Horace Danby like to collect?

Did you begin to suspect, before the end of the story, that the lady was not the person Horace Danby took her to be? If so, at what point did you realise this, and how?

“Horace Danby was good and respectable — but not completely honest”. Why do you think this description is apt for Horace? Why can’t he be categorised as a typical thief?

What are the subtle ways in which the lady manages to deceive Horace Danby into thinking she is the lady of the house? Why doesn’t Horace suspect that something is wrong?

Who is speaking to Horace Danby?

Why does he steal every year?

Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?

How is Ausable different from other secret agents?

How did the invisible man first become visible?

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 does he say about the different reactions of people when they are robbed?

Do you think the lawyer was gullible? How could he have avoided being taken for a ride?

Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion? What does he first think about the place?

Why do you think Lutkins’ neighbours were anxious to meet the lawyer?

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?

Who befriends him? Where does he take him?

What does he get from Anil in return for his work?

Who is Lutkins?

Lutkins openly takes the lawyer all over the village. How is it that no one lets out the secret? (Hint: Notice that the hack driver asks the lawyer to keep out of sight behind him when they go into Fritz’s.) Can you find other such subtle ways in which Lutkins manipulates the tour?