Read the text and answer the questions.

CHAPTER IX

KIT'S REWARD

On the morning after their arrival, Kit and Macallister went to the Metropole. Macallister wore a neat blue uniform, a cap with the company's badge, and spotless white deck-shoes. His talk was careless and now and then his eyes twinkled. Kit's look was moody, and he wore plain duck clothes. He did not know if he was the company's servant and rather thought he was not; Don Arturo had sent for him, and he was probably going to be dismissed.

When they went up the drive to the big square hotel Macallister looked about.

"Don Arturo's a great man, but he has no' much eye for beauty," he remarked. "When his architect built the Metropole his model was a block. Maybe the cube style's economical. We get the maist room inside wi' the least span o' wall, but if I was a Spaniard, I'd make a bomb and blow up the ugly thing."

He stopped and putting his head on one side studied the hotel. "Bulk has value, if it's properly relieved. The old Greeks kenned; they used the square but they broke the line wi' pillars and cornices. Maybe, if ye worked in two, three mouldings and ran a _loggia_ along the front----"

"I didn't know you were an architect," Kit said impatiently.

"Ye dinna ken a' old Peter's talents," Macallister rejoined with a grin. "Architecture's useful and man has done fine work in stone, but for a pattern o' lightness, strength and beauty ye'll need to take a modern steel steamship. She must bear strains and stresses ye dinna bother aboot on land. A town hall, for example, is no designed for plunging through a steep head sea. Man! wi' a rule and a scriber, I'd design ye a better building than yon hotel."

1. Who was said to be a great man?
2. What didn't he have a good eye for?
3. Was anyone wearing blue?
4. Who?
5. What shape was the hotel?
6. What was possibly economical?
7. Who went to the Metropole?
8. Who went to the Metropole on the morning after their arrival?
9. What was on someone's cap?
10. Who seemed impatient?
11. What did someone say they'd do if they were a Spaniard?
12. Was anyone speaking carelessly?
13. Who?
14. Was anyone wearing plain, duck clothes?
15. Who?
16. Who did Don Arturo send for?
17. What reason did he think he got sent for?
18. Did anyone study the hotel?
19. What was his posture like?
20. What did he then say had value?

Numbered answers:
1. Don Arturo
2. Beauty
3. Yes
4. Macallister
5. Square
6. The cube style
7. Don Arturo's architect
8. Kit and Macallister
9. The company's badge
10. Kit
11. They would make a bomb and blow up the hotel
12. Yes
13. Macallister
14. Yes
15. Kit
16. Kit
17. He was going to be dismissed
18. Yes
19. His head was on one side
20. Bulk