CHAPTER XXXIV.

HOPE.

From Edie Le Breton's lodgings, Hilda Tregellis drove straight, without stopping all the way, to Arthur Berkeley's house at Chelsea; for Arthur had long since risen to the dignity of an enfranchised householder, and had bought himself a pretty cottage near the Embankment, with room enough for himself and the Progenitor, and even for any possible future domestic contingency in the way of wife and children. It was a very unconventional thing for her to do, no doubt; but Lady Hilda was certainly not the person to be deterred from doing anything she contemplated on the bare ground of its extreme unconventionally; and so far was she from objecting personally to her visit on this score, that before she rang the Berkeleys' bell she looked quietly at her little bijou watch, and said with a bland smile to the suspicious Mr. Jenkins, 'Let me see, Jenkins; it's one o'clock. I shall lunch with my friends here this morning; so you may take the carriage home now for my lady, and I shall cab it back, or come round by Metropolitan.' Jenkins was too much accustcmed to Lady Hilda's unaccountable vagaries to express any surprise at her wildest resolutions, even if she had proposed to go home on a costermonger's barrow; so he only touched his hat respectfully, in his marionette fashion, and drove away at once without further colloquy.

'Is Mr. Berkeley at home?' Hilda asked of the pretty servant girl who opened the door to her, mentally taking note at the same time that Arthur's aesthetic tendencies evidently extended even to his human surroundings. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where does Arthur live?
2. Does he own his home?
3. What kind of house is it?
4. Does it look nice?
5. Is there plenty of space?
6. What can he add to his household if he wants?
7. Where is it?
8. Has he had it a while?
9. who is dropping in on him?
10. Is this what she normally does?
11. Where is she coming from?
12. Did she make any detours?
13. What will she do with her friends?
14. How did she get there?
15. What?
16. Who left with it?
17. How will Hilda get back?
18. Does she have other options?
19. What is it?
20. Who answered the door?
Answer: 1. Chelsea
2. Yes.
3. cottage
4. Yes.
5. Yes.
6. A wife and children.
7. near the Embankment
8. Yes.
9. Lady Hilda
10. No.
11. unknown
12. No.
13. Have lunch
14. She drove
15. A carriage .
16. Mr. Jenkins
17. A cab
18. Yes.
19. Metropolitan
20. A servant girl

A naughty boy was sitting in math class on Tuesday. There was a broken sink in the back of the room full of water. There was also a kitty on the open window. A loud plane was flying outside and scared the kitty inside. The naughty boy walked up to the kitty and picked it up. What do you think he did next? He threw the kitty into the water in the sink! The kitty didn't last long and ran away from the sink faster than lightning! The other children laughed and laughed, but the teacher didn't think it was funny. She didn't let the naughty boy play on the playground for a week! But the boy didn't care. The class thought he was funny, and so did he. But he would have to get smarter because the sink was fixed soon. The naughty boy thought the teacher was a witch who used a magic kiss to fix it. He had no idea that her husband fixed it the next day. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where was the boy sitting?
2. When?
3. And what kind of person was he?
4. What was in the back of the room?
5. And what was in it?
6. And what else was in the room?
7. Where?
8. What was outside?
9. And how'd the cat feel about that?
10. So what'd the boy do?
11. And then?
12. Did the cat like it?
13. So what'd it do?
14. From where?
15. And how?
16. What'd the other kids do?
17. Did the teacher think it was funny?
18. So did she punish him?
19. How?
20. Who fixed the sink eventually?
Answer: 1. in math class
2. on Tuesday
3. naughty
4. a broken sink
5. water
6. a kitty
7. on the open window
8. A loud plane
9. scared
10. walked up to the kitty and picked it up
11. He threw the kitty into the water in the sink
12. No
13. ran away
14. the sink
15. faster than lightning
16. laughed and laughed
17. No
18. Yes
19. She didn't let the naughty boy play on the playground for a week
20. The teacher's husband

Once there was a fish who had lived his whole life in his bowl. He often got bored and wished to see the rest of the world, but because he was a fish, he couldn't leave the water. So one day he made a special fish suit that would allow him to walk on land and breathe air like humans. He knew this would change his life, and make him rich, but first he would have to test it out.

He put the suit on and leaped from the bowl that until now had been his whole world. The suit worked! Now he could go where he wanted.

First he went to the kitchen of the house. There he saw a parrot eating a cracker. Second he went outside to the yard. He saw squirrels there running around looking for food. Third he went to the barn in the field. He saw a mommy cow. She was teaching her calf how to run. Finally he went to forest where he saw more trees than he had ever seen in his whole life.

But after all this he was tired, and made up his mind to go back to his home in the bowl. It was a lot of work trying to see the world. He took off the special suit and splashed back into the water. His suit had passed the test and he was very happy, but he had made up his mind that his bowl was the place for him. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where did the fish live?
2. For how long?
3. Did he find that exciting?
4. So how'd he feel?
5. And what did he want to do?
6. Could he?
7. Why?
8. Why not?
9. So what'd he do to change that?
10. What'd it do?
11. And what else?
12. Like who?
13. What'd he know?
14. But what'd he have to do first?
15. Did the suit work?
16. Where could he now go?
17. So where'd he go first?
18. What'd he see there?
19. Doing what?
20. Where did he go next?
Answer:
1. in his bowl.
2. his whole life
3. No
4. He often got bored
5. see the rest of the world
6. No
7. he couldn't leave the water.
8. because he was a fish
9. he made a special fish suit
10. allow him to walk on land
11. breathe air
12. humans
13. this would change his life, and make him rich
14. test it out
15. Yes
16. where he wanted
17. the kitchen of the house
18. a parrot
19. eating a cracker
20. outside to the yard.