Problem: Chapter II

An Unknown Path

Kirk blinked. He closed his eyes and opened them again. The automobile was still there, and he was still in it. Ruth was still gazing at him with the triumphant look in her eyes. The chauffeur, silent emblem of a substantial bank-balance, still sat stiffly at the steering-wheel.

"Rich?" Kirk repeated.

"Rich," Ruth assured him.

"I don't understand."

Ruth's smile faded.

"Poor father----"

"Your father?"

"He died just after you sailed. Just before Bill got ill." She gave a little sigh. "Kirk, how odd life is!"

"But-----"

"It was terrible. It was some kind of a stroke. He had been working too hard and taking no exercise. You know when he sent Steve away that time he didn't engage anybody else in his place. He went back to his old way of living, which the doctor had warned him against. He worked and worked, until one day, Bailey says, he fainted at the office. They brought him home, and he just went out like a burned-out candle. I--I went to him, but for a long time he wouldn't see me.

"Oh, Kirk, the hours I spent in the library hoping that he would let me come to him! But he never did till right at the end. Then I went up, and he was dying. He couldn't speak. I don't know now how he felt toward me at the last. I kissed him. He was all shrunk to nothing. I had a horrible feeling that I had never been a real daughter to him. But--but--you know, he made it difficult, awfully difficult. And then he died; Bailey was on one side of the bed and I was on the other, and the nurse and the doctor were whispering outside the door. I could hear them through the transom."
1. What's the name of this section?
2. Who was closing and opening their eyes?
3. Where was he?
4. Who was looking at him?
5. Who else was in the car?
6. Who died before Bill became sick?
7. When did he die?
8. What did he die of?
9. What caused it?
10. Who didn't he replace?
11. What does Bailey say happened to the father?
12. How did the father respond to her?
13. Where did she wait for a change?
14. When did the father see her?
15. What sign of affection does she show him?
16. Who was on the other bedside?
17. Who was outside the door?
Answer: 1. An Unknown Path
2. Kirk blinked. He closed his ey
3. automobile
4. Ruth
5. The chauffeur
6. father
7. He died just after Kirk sailed.
8. a stroke
9. working too hard and taking no exercise
10. Steve
11. fainted at the office
12. wouldn't see her
13. library
14. as he was dying
15. she kissed him.
16. Bailey
17. nurse and the doctor

Q: CHAPTER XII

IN WHICH A COMEDIAN CHALLENGES TRAGEDY TO BOWLS

When Grizel opened the door of Corp's house she found husband and wife at home, the baby in his father's arms; what is more, Gavinia was looking on smiling and saying, "You bonny litlin, you're windy to have him dandling you; and no wonder, for he's a father to be proud o'." Corp was accepting it all with a complacent smirk. Oh, agreeable change since last we were in this house! oh, happy picture of domestic bliss! oh--but no, these are not the words; what we meant to say was, "Gavinia, you limmer, so you have got the better of that man of yours at last."

How had she contrived it? We have seen her escorting the old lady to the Dovecot, Corp skulking behind. Our next peep at them shows Gavinia back at her house, Corp peering through the window and wondering whether he dare venture in. Gavinia was still bothered, for though she knew now the story of Tommy's heroism, there was no glove in it, and it was the glove that maddened her.

"No, I ken nothing about a glove," the old lady had assured her.

"Not a sylup was said about a glove," maintained Christina, who had given her a highly coloured narrative of what took place in Mrs. McLean's parlour.

"And yet there's a glove in't as sure as there's a quirk in't," Gavinia kept muttering to herself. She rose to have another look at the hoddy-place in which she had concealed the glove from her husband, and as she did so she caught sight of him at the window. He bobbed at once, but she hastened to the door to scarify him. The clock had given only two ticks when she was upon him, but in that time she had completely changed her plan of action. She welcomed him with smiles of pride. Thus is the nimbleness of women's wit measured once and for all. They need two seconds if they are to do the thing comfortably.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where did Grizel arrive?
2. Who was a father to be proud of?
3. Who was on his lap?
4. Who was his wife?
5. What did the guest think the wife had finally done?
6. Where had an altercation happened earlier?
7. Who told of the tale of what happened there?
8. What object was in question regarding the events?
9. Who was the wife seen walking with?
10. Where to?
A: 1. Corp's house
2. Corp
3. the baby
4. Gavinia
5. got the better of that man
6. unknown
7. Christina
8. a glove
9. the old lady
10. Dovecot

Problem: CHAPTER XX.

TO-MORROW.

The two girls met no living soul on their way back to the rectory. They let themselves in noiselessly; they stole upstairs unheard--the breaking morning gave them what light they needed. Shirley sought her couch immediately; and though the room was strange--for she had never slept at the rectory before--and though the recent scene was one unparalleled for excitement and terror by any it had hitherto been her lot to witness, yet scarce was her head laid on the pillow ere a deep, refreshing sleep closed her eyes and calmed her senses.

Perfect health was Shirley's enviable portion. Though warm-hearted and sympathetic, she was not nervous; powerful emotions could rouse and sway without exhausting her spirit. The tempest troubled and shook her while it lasted, but it left her elasticity unbent, and her freshness quite unblighted. As every day brought her stimulating emotion, so every night yielded her recreating rest. Caroline now watched her sleeping, and read the serenity of her mind in the beauty of her happy countenance.

For herself, being of a different temperament, she could not sleep. The commonplace excitement of the tea-drinking and school-gathering would alone have sufficed to make her restless all night; the effect of the terrible drama which had just been enacted before her eyes was not likely to quit her for days. It was vain even to try to retain a recumbent posture; she sat up by Shirley's side, counting the slow minutes, and watching the June sun mount the heavens.
1. Did they see anyone on the way back?
2. Who was walking?
3. From where?
4. To where?
5. Did they make it?
6. Did they barge in?
7. What was one of their names?
8. What did she look for when she got there?
9. Had she been there before?
10. Had she had an eventful night?
Answer:
1. No
2. two girls
3. on their way back
4. the rectory
5. Yes
6. No
7. Shirley
8. her couch
9. Yes
10. Yes