Problem: CHAPTER LVII.

THE LOVES AND HOPES OF ALBERT FITZALLEN.

Felix Graham, when he left poor Mary Snow, did not go on immediately to the doctor's shop. He had made up his mind that Mary Snow should never be his wife, and therefore considered it wise to lose no time in making such arrangements as might be necessary both for his release and for hers. But, nevertheless, he had not the heart to go about the work the moment that he left her. He passed by the apothecary's, and looking in saw a young man working sedulously at a pestle. If Albert Fitzallen were fit to be her husband and willing to be so, poor as he was himself, he would still make some pecuniary sacrifice by which he might quiet his own conscience and make Mary's marriage possible. He still had a sum of 1,200 belonging to him, that being all his remaining capital; and the half of that he would give to Mary as her dower. So in two days he returned, and again looking in at the doctor's shop, again saw the young man at his work.

"Yes, sir, my name is Albert Fitzallen," said the medical aspirant, coming round the counter. There was no one else in the shop, and Felix hardly knew how to accost him on so momentous a subject, while he was still in charge of all that store of medicine, and liable to be called away at any moment to relieve the ailments of Clapham. Albert Fitzallen was a pale-faced, light-haired youth, with an incipient moustache, with his hair parted in equal divisions over his forehead, with elaborate shirt-cuffs elaborately turned back, and with a white apron tied round him so that he might pursue his vocation without injury to his nether garments. His face, however, was not bad, nor mean, and had there not been about him a little air of pretension, assumed perhaps to carry off the combined apron and beard, Felix would have regarded him altogether with favourable eyes.
1. Who left someone?
2. Who did he leave?
3. What had he decided about her?
4. Does he want to wait a long time for them to move on?
5. Does he want to start immediately?
6. Where was he going?
7. Where did he pass by on the way?
8. What does he see?
9. Doing what?
10. Does he go in?
11. When does he go back?
12. What is he called?
13. What is his last name?
14. Was he alone?
15. What might he get asked to do?
16. Of who?
17. When?
18. What is he like?
19. What about his hair?
20. And his clothes?
Answer: 1. Felix Graham
2. Mary Snow
3. Mary Snow should never be his wife
4. No
5. No
6. the doctor's shop
7. the apothecary's
8. a young man
9. working sedulously at a pestle
10. No
11. in two days
12. Albert
13. Fitzallen
14. Yes
15. called away to relieve ailments
16. Clapham
17. at any moment
18. a pale-faced, light-haired youth
19. parted in equal divisions over his forehead
20. with a white apron tied round him

Problem: CHAPTER I. A DISPERSION

'A telegram! Make haste and open it, Jane; they always make me so nervous! I believe that is the reason Reginald always _will_ telegraph when he is coming,' said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty, well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of some age about forty, as her elder sister, brisk and lively and some years older, came into the room.

'No, it is not Reggie. It is from Lily. Poor Lily! Jasper--- accident---Come.'

'Poor dear Lily! Is it young Jasper or old Jasper, I wonder?'

'If it were young Jasper she would have put Japs. I am afraid it is her husband. If so, she will be going off to him. I must catch the 11.20 train. Will you come, Ada?'

'Oh no; I should be knocked up, and on your hands. The suspense is bad enough at home.'

'If it is old Jasper, we shall see in the paper to-day. I will send it down to you from the station. Supposing it is Sir Jasper, and she wants to go out to him, we must take in some of the children.'

'Oh! Dear little Primrose would be nice enough, but what should we do with that Halfpenny woman? If we had the other girls, I suppose they would be at school all day; but surely some might go to Beechcroft. And mind, Jane, I will not have you overtasking yourself! Do not take any of them without having Gillian to help you. That I stipulate.'

Jane Mohun seemed as if she did not hear as these sentences were uttered at intervals, while she stood dashing off postcards at her davenport. Then she said, on her way to the door---
1. Who was sending postcards?
2. Who was on a davenport?
3. What was she doing?
4. What was nerve-racking?
5. Who opened it?
6. Does she have a sister?
7. Her name?
8. Is she younger?
9. About how old was she?
10. Was the telegram from Reginald?
11. Who was it from?
12. What happened?
13. Involving whom?
14. Who is supposed to assist Jane?
15. Where will the girls go if not to school?
16. What time is the train?
17. Who is Lily's husband?
18. What is his title?
19. What is halfpenny?
20. Who is nice?
Answer:
1. Lily
2. Jane Mohun
3. dashing off postcards
4. a telegram
5. Jane
6. yes
7. Miss Adeline Mohun
8. no
9. about forty
10. no
11. Lily
12. an accident
13. Jasper
14. Gillian
15. Beechcroft
16. 11.20
17. Jasper
18. Sir Jasper
19. a woman
20. Primrose