Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?
Mrs Pumphrey was worried about her dog Tricki. She was shocked to see Tricki because he looked bloated like a sausage, his tongue was rolling out of his mouth. It was looking like that he had no energy in his body and was suffering from malnutrition. He was even refusing his favourite dishes to ear and had bouts of vomiting. He spent all his time lying on the rug and painting.
Do you think this is a real-life episode, or mere fiction? Or is it a mixture of both?
What kind of a person do you think the narrator, a veterinary surgeon, is? Would you say he is tactful as well as full of commonsense?
How does he treat the dog?
Is the narrator as rich as Tricki’s mistress?
Do you think Tricki was happy to go home? What do you think will happen now?
What does she do to help him? Is she wise in this?
Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?
Why does Mrs Pumphrey think the dog’s recovery is “a triumph of surgery”?
Why is he tempted to keep Tricki on as a permanent guest?
How is Ausable different from other secret agents?
What does Horace Danby like to collect?
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?
Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?
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?
What does Horace Danby like to collect?
How does Ausable say he got in?
Bholi had many apprehensions about going to school. What made her feel that she was going to a better place than her home?
If you were caught in a situation like this, how would you have dealt with it?
What is he “a fairly successful hand” at?
Does she find her teacher different from the people at home?
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?
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 not Anil hand the thief over to the police? Do you think most people would have done so? In what ways is Anil different from such employers?