Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Chapter IX

Nobble

During the two days which Dick and Caldigate spent together in Melbourne Mrs. Smith's name was not mentioned between them. They were particularly civil each to the other and went to work together, making arrangements at a bank as to their money, taking their places, despatching their luggage, and sorting their belongings as though there had been no such woman as Mrs. Smith on board the Goldfinder. Dick, though he had been inclined to grumble when his mystery had been taken out of his hands,--who had, of course, been jealous when he saw that the lady had discarded her old hat and put on new ribbons, not for him, but for another,--was too conscious of the desolation to which he would be subjected by quarrelling with his friend. He felt himself unable to go alone, and was therefore willing that the bygones of the ship should be bygones. Caldigate, on the other hand, acknowledged to himself that he owed some reparation to his companion. Of course he had not bound himself to any special mode of life;--but had he, in his present condition, allied himself more closely to Mrs. Smith, he would, to some extent, have thrown Dick over. And then, as soon as he was on shore, he did feel somewhat ashamed of himself in regard to Mrs. Smith. Was it not manifest that any closer alliance, let the alliance be what it might, must be ruinous to him? As it was, had he not made an absolute fool of himself with Mrs. Smith? Had he not got himself already into a mess from which there was no escape? Of course he must write to her when the month was over. The very weight of his thoughts on this matter made him tamer with Dick and more observant than he would otherwise have been.

1. What woman had been on the Goldfinder?
2. How many days did the friends spend in Melbourne?
3. How many times did they talk about Mrs. Smith during that time?
4. True or False: Caldigate felt that he owed something to Dick.
5. What did he owe?
6. What had Mrs. Smith thrown away?
7. What did she wear that was new?
8. Did she do this for Dick?
9. True or False: Caldigate thought a closer relationship with Mrs. Smith would be disastrous.
10. Who knew he would be lonely if he argued with his friend?
11. Was he inclined to complain?
12. Why?
13. Did the two visit a bank?
14. Did they visit a courthouse?
15. Did Caldigate think he had been silly with the lady?
16. True or False: He felt that any issue caused by this he could easily get out of.
17. When would he send her a letter?
18. Had Caldigate dedicated himself to any set path in life?
19. What, if he had done it, would have betrayed Dick?
20. What did the pair do with their luggage?
1. Mrs. Smith
2. two
3. zero
4. True
5. some reparation
6. her old hat
7. ribbons
8. no
9. True.
10. Dick
11. Yes.
12. his mystery had been taken out of his hands
13. yes
14. unknown
15. Yes
16. False
17. when the month was over
18. no
19. allying himself more closely to Mrs. Smith
20. despatched it