Q: I think that I am very lucky because I have a lot of friends. My best friend is Mai. She is 16 years old. She is 2 years older than me. We live in the same village. She is my neighbor and we are now classmates, so we have been friends for so long. Mai is tall and thin. With long black hair, she has got an oval face with big bright eyes, a high nose and a small mouth. Mai is very beautiful, especially when she smiles. She is always helpful, polite and honest . When her friends have difficulties, she always tries her best to help them. Although we have the same hobbies and interests, we have different personalities . I am sociable and enjoy telling jokes. My classmates think that I'm rather outgoing .Unlike me, Mai is quite serious and prefer quietness to noise.However, we can keep secrets together, so we are close friends. Mai is one of the best students in my class and she works hard. I like doing homework with her. She always tries her best to help me with my studies. I think as time goes by, our friendship will be deeper and deeper.

1. Mai's best friend
2. Mai is 16
3. 14
4. yes
5. yes
6. yes
7. one of the best
8. yes
9. no
10. black
11. she is tall and thin
12. smile
13. oval
14. they are bright
15. is small
16. Unlike her friend, Mai is quite serious
17. she enjoys telling jokes.
18. they have the same hobbies and interests
19. yes
20. yes

Numbered questions:
1. Who is narrating this?
2. How old is she?
3. How old is her best friend?
4. Does she feel lucky?
5. Do they live in the same place?
6. Go to the same class?
7. Is Mai a good student?
8. Does she help her friend out with school
9. Is she ugly?
10. What color is her hair?
11. What kind of build does she have?
12. What the most beautiful thing she does?
13. What shape is her face?
14. How does she describe her eyes?
15. And her mouth?
16. What is different about them?
17. What does her friend like doing?
18. What do they have in common?
19. Do they tell secrets?
20. Does she expect their friendship to get stronger?

Q: CHAPTER XXIV

REALITIES

Though there was bitter frost in the ranges, it had but lightly touched the sheltered forests that shut in Bonavista. The snow seldom lay long there, and only a few wisps of it gleamed beneath the northern edge of the pines. Mrs. Acton, as usual, had gathered a number of guests about her, and Violet Hamilton sat talking with one of them in the great drawing-room one evening. The room was brilliantly lighted, and the soft radiance gleamed upon the polished parquetry floor, on which rugs of costly skins were scattered. A fire of snapping pine-logs blazed in the big English hearth, and a faint aromatic fragrance crept into the room.

Miss Hamilton leaned back in a softly padded lounge that was obviously only made for two, and a pleasant-faced, brown-eyed young Englishman, who had no particular business in that country, but had gone there merely for amusement, sat at the other end of it, regarding her with a smile.

"After all," he said reflectively, "I really don't think I'm very sorry the snow drove us down from our shooting camp in the ranges."

Violet laughed. She had met the man before he went into the mountains, and he had been at Bonavista for a week or two now.

"It was too cold for you up there?" she queried.

"It was," answered the man, "at least, it was certainly too cold for Jardine, who came out with me. He got one of his feet nipped sitting out one night with the rifle on a high ledge in the snow, and when I left him in Vancouver the doctor told him it would be a month before he could wear a boot again."

1. Gathered guests around her
2. Bonavista.
3. One of the guests
4. No
5. Gone there for amusement
6. No
7. Jardine
8. No
9. Jardine got hurt
10. He got one of his feet nipped
11. On a high ledge
12. Yes
13. At some point.
14. A month
15. A doctor
16. Vancouver
17. two weeks
18. Yes
19. A fire
20. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. What did Mrs. Acton usually do?
2. Where does the story take place?
3. Who was Violet speaking with?
4. was it a female?
5. What was the man doing there?
6. Was he there alone?
7. Who was he with?
8. Were they still up in the mountains?
9. why not?
10. how?
11. where?
12. was it cold?
13. will he be okay?
14. how long?
15. who told him this?
16. from where?
17. Was the Englishman in Bona vista for long?
18. Did the drawing room have rugs?
19. what was in the fireplace?
20. did the room have an aroma?

Q: CHAPTER LV.

IN THE CASTLE THERE LIVED A KNIGHT.

Ayala was compelled to consent to remain at Stalham. The "I don't think" which she repeated so often was, of course, of no avail to her. Sir Harry would be angry, and Lady Albury would be disgusted, were she to go,--and so she remained. There was to be a week before Colonel Stubbs would come, and she was to remain not only for the week but also for some short time afterwards,--so that there might be yet a few days left of hunting under the Colonel. It could not, surely, have been doubtful to her after she had read that letter,--with the postscript,--that if she remained her happiness would be insured! He would not have come again and insisted on her being there to receive him if nothing were to come of it. And yet she had fought for permission to return to Kingsbury Crescent after her little fashion, and had at last yielded, as she told Lady Albury,--because Sir Harry seemed to wish it. "Of course he wishes it," said Lady Albury. "He has got the pony on purpose, and nobody likes being disappointed when he has done a thing so much as Sir Harry." Ayala, delighted as she was, did not make her secret known. She was fluttered, and apparently uneasy,--so that her friend did not know what to make of it, or which way to take it. Ayala's secret was to herself a secret still to be maintained with holy reticence. It might still be possible that Jonathan Stubbs should never say another word to her of his love. If he did,--why then all the world might know. Then there would be no secret. Then she could sit and discuss her love, and his love, all night long with Lady Albury, if Lady Albury would listen to her. In the meantime the secret must be a secret. To confess her love, and then to have her love disappointed,--that would be death to her!

1. Ayala
2. Stay at Stalham
3. Sir Harry
4. yes
5. Lady Albury
6. if she left
7. Colonel Stubbs
8. a week
9. no
10. no
11. Ayala
12. no
13. Ayala
14. Jonathan Stubbs
15. yes
16. Jonathan Stubbs should never say another word to her of his love
17. Lady Albury,
18. yes
19. o have her love disappointed,-
20. Ayala'

Numbered questions:
1. who was compelled?
2. to do what?
3. who would be angry?
4. would someone be disgusted?
5. whom?
6. why?
7. Who was hunting?
8. how long before he arrived?
9. was the pony on accident?
10. do people like being disappointed?
11. Who was uneasy?
12. did her friend know what to do?
13. who had a secret?
14. Who may not speak his name?
15. did she keep her secret?
16. What happened if there was no secret?
17. Who did she want to discuss with?
18. Must it remain a secret?
19. What would be the death of her?
20. Who wanted to confess?