Why is he tempted to keep Tricki on as a permanent guest?
Mrs Pumphrey had started bringing eggs to build tricki’s strength along with wine bottles and brandy. The narrator and his partners started enjoying the eggs, wine and brandy which was bring up by Mrs Pumphrey for tricki. According to the narrator, they were days of deep content for them that was started with the extra egg in the morning, then the midday wine and then finally finishing the day with brandy. that is why the narrator was tempted to keep Tricki on as a permanent guest.
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?
Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?
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”?
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?
What lesson does Ebright learn when he does not win anything at a science fair?
Why is Bholi’s father worried about her?
How does Ausable say he got in?
Why does he steal every year?
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?
Why did Bholi at first agree to an unequal match? Why did she later reject the marriage? What does this tell us about her?
How does Ausable manage to make Max believe that there is a balcony attached to his room? Look back at his detailed description of it. What makes it a convincing story?
What more does Bill say about Lutkins and his family?
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?
When the lawyer reached New Mullion, did ‘Bill’ know that he was looking for Lutkins? When do you think Bill came up with his plan for fooling the lawyer?