Gender Readings. Top Ten. Ренц Т.Г - 82 стр.

       3. What did the girl want him to tell her about?
       4. What reason did she give for not telling him who she was?
       5. What did she say about her way of life and her attitude to it?
       6. What did the young man tell her about his position in life
and why did he tell her this?
       7. Why did she ask him to stay in the park when she left?
       8. How did the other girl make clear to her that she was late
on duty?
       9. What is the significance in the story of the book that she had
been reading?
     10. What does the last sentence of the story tell us about the
young man?
B. Find expressions in the text with the same meaning as those below:
      1) very boldly;
      2) waiting to see what would happen to him;
      3) to avoid newspaper publicity;
      4) a person with too much respect for money and position;
      5) I like to get my facts right;
      6) the highest levels of society¾;
      7) an idle person;
      8) to get on in life;
      9) the same boring series of activities;
     10) leaned back in comfort.
C. Write this passage in indirect speech. (Begin with She said that¾):
      “It is impossible to keep one’s name out of print. This veil and
this hat of my maid’s hide my identity. You should have seen the
chauffeur stare at it when he thought I did not see. There are five or
six names that belong to the holy of holies, and mine, by accident of
birth, is one of them. I spoke to you because I — wanted to talk for
once with a natural man. Oh! You do not know how weary I am of it —
money, monåó, money. And of the men who surround me, dancing
like dolls all cut by the same pattern. I am sick of pleasure, of jewels,
of travel, of society, of luxuries of all kinds.”
D. Read through the story again and find examples:
    a) of the ways in which the girl in grey tries to impress the
young man with her high social position;
    b) of mistakes she makes which show that she is only pretending.

                                 – 82 –