Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Lady Adela : Oh! Charlie, he did look so exactly as if he’d sold me a carpet when I was paying him
Winsor : [changing into slippers] His father did sell carpets, wholesale, in the City.
Lady Adela : Really? And you say I haven’t intuition! [With a finger on her lips] Morison’s in there.
Winsor : [Motioning towards the door, which she shuts] Ronny Dancy took a tenner off him, anyway, before dinner.
(i) How did Dancy take a ‘tenner’ from De Levis?
How does De Levis later connect this trick with the theft?
(ii) Why, according to Lady Adela, did Dancy leave the army?
Why does she call him reckless?
(iii) Where had De Levis kept the money which was stolen? Where had he gone after keeping the money? How much did he lose?
(iv) Why is Winsor outraged when De Levis says he had locked his door? What was the height of the room from the ground? How do they know that the thief did not use a ladder to climb up to De Levis’ room?
(v) How does General Canynge react when De Levis first accuses Dancy of committing the theft? What is your opinion of De Levis?
Give one reason to justify your answer.
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(i)
- Dancy took a standing jump on a book case four feet high.
- De Levis tells Canynge that they had seen how Dancy can jump. / The distance between Dancy’s balcony and his was only seven feet. / If a man can take a standing jump on a narrow book case, he’d make nothing of that.
(ii)
- Dancy found the army too dull, since there was no fighting.
- Dancy was reckless because he got married / even though he had no money or a job. ( he was on his bones )
(iii)
- Under the pillow
- To have a bath
- Nearly a thousand – nine hundred and seventy pounds.
(iv)
- He feels outraged that such precaution should be taken in his house / resents the lack of trust.
- Twenty-three feet from the terrace.
- The ladder was not moved from the stable. / there were no marks on the ground.
(v)
- Canynge defends Dancy. / Says Dancy is a soldier and a gentleman / It is an outrageous accusation / De Levis must withdraw unreservedly.
- Personal response.