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?
Why do you think Lutkins’ neighbours were anxious to meet the lawyer?
What does he say about Lutkins?
Who is 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?
Who befriends him? Where does he take him?
Does the narrator serve the summons that day?
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?
What lesson does Ebright learn when he does not win anything at a science fair?
What do M. and Mme Loisel do next?
Does she find her teacher different from the people at home?
What was the cause of Matilda’s ruin? How could she have avoided it?
For what unusual reasons is Bholi sent to school?
“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?
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 kind of a person is her husband?
How does he treat the dog?
How did his mother help him?