Class 10 English - Footprints Without Feet - Chapter The Hack Driver NCERT Solutions | Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion? W

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?

What does he say about Lutkins?

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

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?

Who is Lutkins?

Who befriends him? Where does he take him?

Does the narrator serve the summons that day?

What more does Bill say about Lutkins and his family?

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?

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

Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?

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 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?

Does Bholi enjoy her first day at school?

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?

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?

Bholi had many apprehensions about going to school. What made her feel that she was going to a better place than her home?

For what unusual reasons is Bholi sent to school?

What was the cause of Matilda’s ruin? How could she have avoided it?

Why did Bholi at first agree to an unequal match? Why did she later reject the marriage? What does this tell us about her?

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

Does Anil realise that he has been robbed?

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?