Q: CHAPTER XXVII. CYTHEREA'S BOWER.

There Citherea, goddesse was and quene, Honourid highly for her majeste, And eke her sonne, the mighty god I weene, Cupid the blinde, that for his dignite A M lovers worshipp on ther kne. There was I bid on pain of dethe to pere, By Mercury, the winged messengre.--CHAUCER.

By twelve o'clock on the ensuing day Mr. Belamour, with Eugene and Jumbo, was set down at a hotel near Whitehall, to secure apartments, while the Major went on to demand his daughter from Lady Belamour, taking with him Betty, whom he allowed to be a much better match for my Lady than he could be. Very little faith in his cousin Urania remained to him in the abstract, yet even now he could not be sure that she would not talk him over and hoodwink him in any actual encounter. Sir Amyas likewise accompanied him, both to gratify his own anxiety and to secure admission. The young man still looked pale and worn with restless anxiety; but he had, in spite of remonstrances, that morning discarded his sling, saying that he should return to his quarters. Let his Colonel do his worst then; he had still more liberty than if compelled to return to his mother's house.

Lady Belamour had, on her second marriage, forsaken her own old hereditary mansion in the Strand, where Sir Jovian had died, and which, she said, gave her the vapours. Mr. Wayland, whose wealth far exceeded her own, had purchased one of the new houses in Hanover Square, the fashionable quarter and very much admired; but the Major regretted the gloomy dignity of the separate enclosure and walled court of Delavie House, whereas the new one, in modern fashion, had only an area and steps between the front and the pavement.

Answer the following questions:
1. who was richer than Lady Belamour?
2. how many people were at a hotel?
3. what time were they there?
4. why were they there?
5. who did the major want?
6. please give the name of one of the people at the hotel
7. and the other two please
8. did the major go alone?
9. how many did he go with?
10. who?
11. why?
12. would you say Urania and Lady Balamour are one person?
13. how is she related to him?
14. who did Amyas go with?
15. why?
16. who died in a mansion?
17. the hotel was close to what?
18. where was the mansion that Jovian died?
19. where did Wayland buy a house?
20. what did the major not like about Delavie House?
A: 1. Mr. Wayland
2. Three
3. By twelve o'clock
4. to secure apartments
5. his daughter
6. Jumbo
7. Mr. Belamour and Eugene
8. no
9. just one
10. Betty,
11. she was a much better match
12. yes
13. cousin
14. Major
15. to gratify his own anxiety
16. Sir Jovian
17. Whitehall
18. the Strand,
19. Hanover Square
20. the gloomy dignity
Q: Beijing (CNN) -- "Please excuse me, I can't talk about this."

Clunk! The phone line goes dead.

We had tried to get this British businessman to talk about the mysterious death of Neil Heywood.

Heywood has emerged from the shadows to be a key link in a story of intrigue, mystery and betrayal that goes all the way to the inner sanctum of China's secretive Communist Party.

Heywood was found dead last November in his hotel room in the sprawling southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing. According to media reports, local authorities quickly ruled his cause of death as "excessive alcohol use." An autopsy was not performed, media reports said, and his body was cremated.

Slowly, however, media reports are raising more uncomfortable questions about Heywood's death. He was married to a Chinese woman and had business interests in the country. He moved in the orbit of a company known as Hakluyt and Co., a British strategic information consultancy formed by former officers of the UK's spy agency MI6.

Hakluyt has released a statement on Heywood, saying, "We had a long history of advising Western companies on China and we are among those who sought (Heywood's) advice. We are greatly saddened by his death."

Now, the British government is asking China to investigate Heywood's death.

"Our embassy in Beijing and consulate general in Chongqing provided consular assistance to the family, as we would in any case involving a British national overseas," the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said. "We recently asked the Chinese authorities to investigate the case further after we heard suggestions that there were suspicious circumstances."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who died?
2. Where was he?
3. Where is that?
4. What was said was the cause of his death?
5. Who was he married to?
6. Was an Autopsy done?
7. What is he a link to?
8. To what?
9. Who was he acquainted with?
10. What is that?
11. Who formed it?
12. Who is asking China to look into the death?
A: 1. Neil Heywood
2. Chongqing
3. southwestern China
4. excessive alcohol use
5. a Chinese woman
6. no
7. a story of intrigue, mystery and betrayal
8. the inner sanctum of China's secretive Communist Party
9. company known as Hakluyt and Co
10. a British strategic information consultancy
11. former officers of the UK's spy agency MI6
12. the British government
Q: CHAPTER IV

A new tenseness seemed to have crept into the situation. The conversation, never without its emotional tendencies, at once changed its character. Philippa, cold and reserved, with a threat lurking all the time in her tone and manner, became its guiding spirit.

"We may enquire your name?" she asked.

"I am the Baron Maderstrom," was the prompt reply. "For the purpose of my brief residence in this country, however, I fancy that the name of Mr. Hamar Lessingham might provoke less comment."

"Maderstrom," Philippa repeated. "You were at Magdalen with my brother."

"For three terms," he assented.

"You have visited at Wood Norton. It was only an accident, then, that I did not meet you."

"It is true," he answered, with a bow. "I received the most charming hospitality there from your father and mother."

"Why, you are the friend," Helen exclaimed, suddenly seizing his hands, "of whom Dick speaks in his letter!"

"It has been my great privilege to have been of service to Major Felstead," was the grave admission. "He and I, during our college days, were more than ordinarily intimate. I saw his name in one of the lists of prisoners, and I went at once to Wittenberg."

A fresh flood of questions was upon Helen's lips, but Philippa brushed her away.

"Please let me speak," she said. "You have brought us these letters from Richard, for which we offer you our heartfelt thanks, but you did not risk your liberty, perhaps your life, to come here simply as his ambassador. There is something beyond this in your visit to this country. You may be a Swede, but is it not true that at the present moment you are in the service of an enemy?"

Answer the following questions:
1. What chapter is this from?
2. Who was cold and reserved?
3. How was she acting?
4. Who did she ask was there?
5. Who was Philippa with?
6. Is helen happy to see Dick?
7. Does Helen have a lot of questions to ask?
8. Who is she trying to ask?
9. Where was the baron?
10. With whom?
11. How long were they there?
12. Where did they journey too next?
13. Did they meet there?
A:
1. IV
2. Philippa
3. Like a threat was lurking all the time
4. the Baron Maderstrom
5. Helen
6. unknown
7. Yes
8. Baron Maderstrom
9. Magdalen
10. Philippa's brother
11. three terms
12. Wood Norton
13. no