CHAPTER II--JUNE'S TREAT

Dinner began in silence; the women facing one another, and the men.

In silence the soup was finished--excellent, if a little thick; and fish was brought. In silence it was handed.

Bosinney ventured: "It's the first spring day."

Irene echoed softly: "Yes--the first spring day."

"Spring!" said June: "there isn't a breath of air!" No one replied.

The fish was taken away, a fine fresh sole from Dover. And Bilson brought champagne, a bottle swathed around the neck with white....

Soames said: "You'll find it dry."

Cutlets were handed, each pink-frilled about the legs. They were refused by June, and silence fell.

Soames said: "You'd better take a cutlet, June; there's nothing coming."

But June again refused, so they were borne away. And then Irene asked: "Phil, have you heard my blackbird?"

Bosinney answered: "Rather--he's got a hunting-song. As I came round I heard him in the Square."

"He's such a darling!"

"Salad, sir?" Spring chicken was removed.

But Soames was speaking: "The asparagus is very poor. Bosinney, glass of sherry with your sweet? June, you're drinking nothing!"

June said: "You know I never do. Wine's such horrid stuff!"

An apple charlotte came upon a silver dish, and smilingly Irene said: "The azaleas are so wonderful this year!"

To this Bosinney murmured: "Wonderful! The scent's extraordinary!"

June said: "How can you like the scent? Sugar, please, Bilson."

Sugar was handed her, and Soames remarked: "This charlottes good!"

The charlotte was removed. Long silence followed. Irene, beckoning, said: "Take out the azalea, Bilson. Miss June can't bear the scent." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What season is it?
2. When did it start?
3. What meal are they having?
4. Does June like wine?
5. Does she like cutlets?
6. Is she an agreeable person?
7. Is this a multi-course meal
8. What did they eat first?
9. Was it too thin?
10. What was next?
11. What kind?
12. What was offered to drink with the fish?
13. Who did not want a cutlet?
14. How many times did she decline?
15. Who tried to convince her to have some?
16. How does he feel about the vegetable?
17. Does Bosinney like the smell of the flowers?
18. Who doesn't?
19. Do they get removed?
20. Who does Irene ask to get rid of the azalea?
Answer: 1. spring
2. the first spring day
3. Dinner
4. no
5. no
6. unknown
7. no
8. soup
9. thick
10. fish
11. sole
12. champagne
13. June
14. twice
15. Soames
16. that is very poor
17. yes
18. Miss June
19. unknown
20. Bilson

Problem: (CNN) -- Hilary Duff says her new album is "very positive" but admits that it started out "a lot heavier and a lot darker" because of the separation from her husband, Mike Comrie.

"I'm separated from my husband right now, which has been a very difficult thing to go through," she told Billboard's "Pop Shop" podcast. "In the beginning, the album was a lot heavier and a lot darker, because I had to get that out. Once I did get that out, a lot of fun came."

Duff married Comrie, a former pro hockey player, in 2010 after dating for three years. Their son, Luca, was born in 2012. Duff and Comrie announced their separation in January.

Duff, 26, admits that she's "nervous" after being away from music for seven years. Her just-released single, "Chasing the Sun," is from her still-untitled album, which will be her first studio release since 2007's "Dignity."

She says she first started thinking of new material when she was pregnant with her son. After having the child and taking another year, she was even more anxious.

"I felt like I was missing a big part of myself," she said.

Duff established a successful singing career on the heels of her popular Disney show, "Lizzie McGuire," which aired from 2001 to 2004. She spent most of her teenage years touring and says that turning 20 was a big factor in leaving the road.

"It was time for me to be a person, and the break just ended up being a long time," she said.
1. How did Duff describe her new album?
2. What is the name of her husband?
3. Dod they have any children?
4. What show was the stepping stone of her singing career?
5. What channel did the show air on?
6. What age did see become that was a big factor in her leaving touring?
7. What pro sport did Comrie use to play?
8. And what year was the son born?
9. Is her new album heavier and darker than her previous?
10. What was the name of the last album she release in 2007?
Answer: 1. "very positive"
2. Mike Comrie
3. Yes
4. "Lizzie McGuire,"
5. Disney
6. 20
7. hockey
8. 2012
9. No
10. "Dignity."

question: CHAPTER XIX--HOW NORMAN LESLIE RODE AGAIN TO THE WARS

Tidings of these parleys, and marches, and surrenders of cities came to us at Tours, the King sending letters to his good towns by messengers. One of these, the very Thomas Scott of whom I have before spoken, a man out of Rankelburn, in Ettrick Forest, brought a letter for me, which was from Randal Rutherford.

"Mess-John Urquhart writes for me, that am no clerk," said Randal, "and, to spare his pains, as he writes for the most of us, I say no more than this: come now, or come never, for the Maid will ride to see Paris in three days, or four, let the King follow or not as he will."

There was no more but a cross marked opposite the name of Randal Rutherford, and the date of place and day, August the nineteenth, at Compiegne.

My face fired, for I felt it, when I had read this, and I made no more ado, but, covenanting with Thomas Scott to be with him when he rode forth at dawn, I went home, put my harness in order, and hired a horse from him that kept the hostelry of the "Hanging Sword," whither also I sent my harness, for that I would sleep there. This was all done in the late evening, secretly, and, after supper, I broke the matter to my master and Elliot. Her face changed to a dead white, and she sat silent, while my master took the word, saying, in our country speech, that "he who will to Cupar, maun to Cupar," and therewith he turned, and walked out and about in the garden.
1. Who writes for Randal?
2. Does he write for anyone else?
3. Who?
4. Who will ride to Paris?
5. When?
6. Is four a possibility?
7. Who may or may not follow?
8. What was marked oppisite Randal Rutherfords name?
9. Was there any other information?
10. What was the date?
11. And place?
12. Who sent the letters?
13. Where did he send them?
14. How were they delivered?
15. Name one?
16. Where was he from?
17. Anyplace specific there?
18. Who did he have a letter for?
19. Who was it from?
20. What did the narrator hire?
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answer:
1. Mess-John Urquhart
2. yes
3. most of them
4. the Maid
5. in three days
6. yes
7. the King
8. a cross
9. and the date of place and day
10. August the nineteenth
11. Compiegne
12. the King
13. at Tours
14. by messengers
15. Thomas Scott
16. Rankelburn
17. in Ettrick Forest
18. the narrator
19. Randal Rutherford
20. a horse