CHAPTER XV--A DISCOURSE ON MANNERS

The days passed, and Tudor seemed loath to leave the hospitality of Berande. Everything was ready for the start, but he lingered on, spending much time in Joan's company and thereby increasing the dislike Sheldon had taken to him. He went swimming with her, in point of rashness exceeding her; and dynamited fish with her, diving among the hungry ground-sharks and contesting with them for possession of the stunned prey, until he earned the approval of the whole Tahitian crew. Arahu challenged him to tear a fish from a shark's jaws, leaving half to the shark and bringing the other half himself to the surface; and Tudor performed the feat, a flip from the sandpaper hide of the astonished shark scraping several inches of skin from his shoulder. And Joan was delighted, while Sheldon, looking on, realized that here was the hero of her adventure-dreams coming true. She did not care for love, but he felt that if ever she did love it would be that sort of a man--"a man who exhibited," was his way of putting it.

He felt himself handicapped in the presence of Tudor, who had the gift of making a show of all his qualities. Sheldon knew himself for a brave man, wherefore he made no advertisement of the fact. He knew that just as readily as the other would he dive among ground-sharks to save a life, but in that fact he could find no sanction for the foolhardy act of diving among sharks for the half of a fish. The difference between them was that he kept the curtain of his shop window down. Life pulsed steadily and deep in him, and it was not his nature needlessly to agitate the surface so that the world could see the splash he was making. And the effect of the other's amazing exhibitions was to make him retreat more deeply within himself and wrap himself more thickly than ever in the nerveless, stoical calm of his race.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Who had the gift of making a show of his qualities?
2. Whose hospitality was Tudor loathe to leave?
3. Whose company did Tudor spend a lot of time in?
4. Who challenged him to tear a fish from a shark?
5. Did he do it?
6. Did that make Joan happy?
7. What did that make Sheldon realize?
8. Did she want to be in love?
9. What kind of man did Sheldon think she would love, if she did?
10. How did Sheldon feel around Tudor?
11. What was the difference between them?
12. Did Sheldon think of himself as brave?
13. How did Tudor's exhibitions affect him?
14. What did they five among?
15. What did they dynamite?
16. From which crew was approval given?
17. Why would Sheldon dive among ground-sharks?
18. What did he consider foolhardy?
19. What pulsed steadily and deep in him?
20. What wasn't in his nature?
1. Tudor
2. Berande
3. Joan's
4. Arahu
5. yes
6. Yes
7. that Tudor was the hero of her adventure-dreams coming true
8. no
9. -"a man who exhibited,"
10. he felt handicapped in the presence of Tudor
11. advertisement of the fact of his bravery, wasn't a show off
12. Yes
13. made him retreat more deeply within himself
14. unknown
15. they dynamited fish
16. the entire Tahitian crew
17. to save a life
18. the act of diving among sharks for the half of a fish
19. Life
20. it was not his nature needlessly to agitate the surface