What more does Bill say about Lutkins and his family?
Bill told the lawyer that he knew Lutkin's mother. He said that she was a terror. He told an incident where he took a trunk to her once and she almost took his skin off because he did not treat this like a box of eggs. He told that she was approx nine feet tall and four feet thick. She was very quick as a cat and talks a lot. He said that oliver must have heard that somebody was chasing him consequently and would have gone into hiding at his mother’s place.
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?
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?
Why do you think Lutkins’ neighbours were anxious to meet the lawyer?
Who is Lutkins?
Does the narrator serve the summons that day?
Who befriends him? Where does he take him?
Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion? What does he first think about the place?
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?
Bholi’s real name is Sulekha. We are told this right at the beginning. But only in the last but one paragraph of the story is Bholi called Sulekha again. Why do you think she is called Sulekha at that point in the story?
How does the thief think Anil will react to the theft?
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?
Do you think this is a real-life episode, or mere fiction? Or is it a mixture of both?
How did a book become a turning point in Richard Ebright’s life?
Why is he tempted to keep Tricki on as a permanent guest?
Bholi had many apprehensions about going to school. What made her feel that she was going to a better place than her home?
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 did his mother help him?
What lesson does Ebright learn when he does not win anything at a science fair?