Q: CHAPTER XIV

"Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him."--JOB XL. 9.

A few moments later Licinia came running back into the room.

"Augusta!" she exclaimed excitedly even before she had crossed the threshold. "Augusta! quick! the Csar!"

Dea Flavia started, for she had indeed been suddenly awakened from a dream. Slowly, and with eyes still vague and thoughtful, she turned to her slave.

"The Csar?" she repeated, whilst a puzzled frown appeared between her brows and the young blood faded from her cheeks. "The Csar?"

"Aye," said the old woman hurriedly. "He is in the atrium even now, having just arrived, and his slaves fill the vestibule. He desires speech with thee."

"He does not often come at this hour," said Dea Flavia, whose face had become very white and set at mention of a name which indeed had the power of rousing terror in every heart just now. "Doth he seem angered?" she asked under her breath.

"No, no," said Licinia reassuringly, "how could he be angered against thee, my pet lamb? But come quickly, dear, to thy robing room; what dress wilt put on to greet the Csar in?"

"Nay, nay," she said with a tremulous little laugh, "we'll not keep my kinsman waiting. That indeed might anger him. He has been in this room before and hath liked to watch me at my work. Let him come now, an he wills."

Licinia would have protested for she loved to deck her darling out in all the finery that, to her mind, rendered the Augusta more beautiful than a goddess, but there was no time to say anything for even now the Csar's voice was heard at the further end of the atrium.

1. it was the Caesar
2. in all the finery that rendered the Augusta more beautiful than a goddness
3. NO
4. In the room
5. He desired speech with thee
6. With Dea Flavia
7. she was suddenly awakened from a dream
8. Licinia
9. Yes
10. he just arrived.

Numbered questions:
1. Who was in the atrium?
2. What did Licinia like to dress Augusta in?
3. Was the Caesar angry?
4. Where were his slaves?
5. What did Caesar want?
6. With who?
7. Why had Dea Flavia been startled?
8. Who woke her?
9. Did Dea become worried?
10. Why?

Q: CHAPTER XXI.

COLONEL KELMSCOTT'S PUNISHMENT.

While Montague Nevitt was thus congenially engaged in pulling off his treble coup of settling his own share in the Rio Negro deficit, pocketing three thousand pounds, pro tem, for incidental expenses, and getting Guy Waring thoroughly into his power by his knowledge of a forgery, two other events were taking place elsewhere, which were destined to prove of no small importance to the future of the twins and their immediate surroundings. Things generally were converging towards a crisis in their affairs. Colonel Kelmscott's wrong-doing was bearing first-fruit abundantly.

For as soon as Granville Kelmscott received that strangely-worded note from Gwendoline Gildersleeve, he proceeded, as was natural, straight down, in his doubt, to his father's library. There, bursting into the room, with Gwendoline's letter still crushed in his hand in the side pocket of his coat, and a face like thunder, he stood in the attitude of avenging fate before his father's chair, and gazed down upon him angrily.

"What does THIS mean?" he asked, in a low but fuming voice, brandishing the note before his eyes as he spoke. "Is every one in the county to be told it but I? Is everybody else to hear my business before you tell me a word of it? A letter comes to me this morning--no matter from whom--and here's what it says: 'I know you're not the eldest son, and that somebody else is the heir of Tilgate.' Surely, if anybody was to know, _I_ should have known it first. Surely, if I'm to be turned adrift on the world, after being brought up to think myself a man of means so long, I should, at least, be turned adrift with my eyes open."

1. yes
2. Gwendoline Gildersleeve
3. in the side pocket of his coat
4. his father's library.
5. yes
6. doubtful
7. angrily
8. no
9. sitting
10. Three

Numbered questions:
1. Did Granville get a letter?
2. From whom?
3. Where did he put it?
4. Where did he go?
5. Right away?
6. What did he feel when he went?
7. Did he feel another emotion?
8. Was his parent standing in the room?
9. Where was he?
10. How many things did Nevitt achieve?

Q: A recent report found 46% of parents agreed that their child knew more about the Internet than they did. And now new research shows parents are turning to their children for lessons in technology.

The new study of around 1,000 parents showed that 67% of parents have asked their teenager children for technology-related advice. 44% have asked their teenager for help using the Internet, and 41% have received teen advice about how to use the TV or home entertainment system.

Ahad Surooprajally, a father of five children, says his children help him with technology in the home. "They've grown up surrounded by technology," he explains. "We have four computers and four iPads in our house. If I want to know something technical they're the ones I go to."

He says his nine-year-old son Habeeb is the only person in the house who really understands the TV. So he tells Habeeb which film he wants to watch and Habeeb connects his mobile phone to the TV. "You teach your kids everyday life lessons, but the tables are turned when it comes to technology," says Ahad.

As well as learning how to use technology properly, there is another advantage of parents asking their children to help them understand the digital world. They may be able to get a better understanding of what their kids are doing online.

Will Gardner of the charity Childnet International says, "We have to continuously encourage parents to find out more about what their children are doing online. If the kids are using a social networking site, get them to show you around it if you are not using it already."

1. around 1,000
2. 44%
3. 46%
4. five
5. four computers and four iPads
6. Habeeb
7. nine-year-old
8. connects mobile phone to the TV.
9. better understanding of what their kids are doing online
10. of Childnet International

Numbered questions:
1. How many parents were polled in the study?
2. What percentage need help from their teenagers when it comes to technology?
3. How many agreed their children knew more than they did about the internet?
4. How many children does Ahad Surooprajally have?
5. What different types of technology do they have at their house?
6. Which one of his children really understand the TV?
7. How old is he?
8. What does he help with?
9. What is another advantage of asking kids for help with technology?
10. Who is Will Gardner?