Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XV--THE END OF THE MEETING

Stephen went on in her calm, cold voice:

'Did he tell you that I had asked him to marry me?' Despite herself, as she spoke the words a red tide dyed her face. It was not a flush; it was not a blush; it was a sort of flood which swept through her, leaving her in a few seconds whiter than before. Harold saw and understood. He could not speak; he lowered his head silently. Her eyes glittered more coldly. The madness that every human being may have once was upon her. Such a madness is destructive, and here was something more vulnerable than herself.

'Did he tell you how I pressed him?' There was no red tide this time, nor ever again whilst the interview lasted. To bow in affirmation was insufficient; with an effort he answered:

'I understood so.' She answered with an icy sarcasm:

'You understood so! Oh, I don't doubt he embellished the record with some of his own pleasantries. But you understood it; and that is sufficient.' After a pause she went on:

'Did he tell you that he had refused me?'

'Yes!' Harold knew now that he was under the torture, and that there was no refusing. She went on, with a light laugh, which wrung his heart even more than her pain had done . . . Stephen to laugh like that!

'And I have no doubt that he embellished that too, with some of his fine masculine witticisms. I understood myself that he was offended at my asking him. I understood it quite well; he told me so!' Then with feminine intuition she went on:

1. Who has an unusual name for her gender?
2. Had she asked something of someone?
3. What was it?
4. Had he told someone about it?
5. Who?
6. Was she persistant in her proposal?
7. Was her proposal accepted?
8. What color was her face when she asked Harold if he knew?
9. Was she emberassed?
10. Did Harold answer quickly?
11. How was he responding to her?
12. Did she think the object of her affection had elaborated on the story?
13. How did she think he felt to be asked such a thing?
14. How did she realize this?
15. Did she continue to speak of it?
16. With what?
17. Did Harold feel that he was being abused in some way?
18. Could he escape it?
19. How did he describe his treatment?
20. Did she find it amusing?
1. Stephen
2. yes
3. to marry her
4. yes
5. Harold
6. yes
7. no
8. red
9. no
10. no
11. silently
12. yes
13. offended
14. he told her so
15. yes
16. with feminine intuition
17. yes
18. no
19. as torture
20. yes