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?
After his first day’s experience with the hack driver the lawyer had thought about returning to new mullion to practice law. He was over the whelmedmy bill’s hospitality. However, during his second visit he realized that he had been literally taken for a ride by the hack driver who himself was Lutkins. In this lutkins was helped by the town people. After becoming the laughter source for the town, it is most likely that the lawyer would have reconsidered his initial idea of working there.
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?
What more does Bill say about Lutkins and his family?
Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion? What does he first think about the place?
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?
You must have read about cells and DNA in your science books. Discuss Richard Ebright’s work in the light of what you have studied. If you get an opportunity to work like Richard Ebright on projects and experiments, which field would you like to work on and why?
What are Hari Singh’s reactions to the prospect of receiving an education? Do they change over time? (Hint: Compare, for example, the thought: “I knew that once I could write like an educated man there would be no limit to what I could achieve” with these later thoughts: “Whole sentences, I knew, could one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees. It was a simple matter to steal — and sometimes just as simple to be caught. But to be a really big man, a clever and respected man, was something else.”) What makes him return to Anil?
Horace Danby was a meticulous planner but still he faltered. Where did he go wrong and why?
What does Horace Danby like to collect?
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?
How is Ausable different from other secret agents?
How does he treat the dog?
If you were in Noodle’s place, how would you handle Think-Tank’s mistakes?
How did the invisible man first become visible?
Do you think this is a real-life episode, or mere fiction? Or is it a mixture of both?