XIII. Insert the correct modal verb and comment on its meaning:

1. Do you realize what courage she _______ have had never by a sign to show how dreadfully unhappy she was?

2. I _______ overlook a thing like this. I’ve been made a laughing stock. I _______ never hold up my head again.

3. “You’ve got no right to ask me a question like that. Ask Evie.” “I _______ ”, George answered after an anguished pause.

4. You _______ to be jolly proud of her.

5. I _______ watch my step.

XIV. Insert the correct article if necessary:

1. And she was terrified when on _____ sudden she discovered that she was passionately in _____ love with him.

2. _____ world, _____ dull, humdrum world of every day, blazed with _____ glory.

3. She had to be cheerful, give _____ dinner-parties and go out to _____ dinner, behave as she had always behaved, though _____ light had gone out of her life and she was bowed down with _____ anguish.

4. _____ new edition came this morning. I’ll get _____ copy.

5. She runs _____ house perfectly, we never have any servant trouble; she’s done _____ wonders with _____ garden and she’s been splendid with all _____ village people.

XV. Give your own preface of the story (5-7 sentences).

XVI. Relate the events of the story as if you were:

George Peregrine;

Evie Peregrine.

XVII. Correct the false statements using the conversational formulas of disagreement:

1. Evie’s the first woman I’d have suspected of kicking over the traces.

2. George Peregrine was indifferent to golf.

3. He was a public spirited man, chairman of any number of local organizations and, as became his class and station, a loyal member of the Democratic Party.

4. She had been a plain little thing when he married her.

XVIII. What methods of characterisation does the author use? What feelings do the main characters express? Are George’s feelings consistent? Do the main characters belong to a particular character type or represent a certain idea, value, quality or attitude? What is the social status of the characters, and how can you tell it from how they speak and what they speak about? How does the narrator characterise the personage through comment or through description? Does the narrator sympathise with the characters or remain aloof and detached?

XIX. Which aphorism reflects the idea of the story best of all (if any)? Justify your point of view. Translate them into Russian:

1. Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves them two fools.

2. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

3. A mother takes twenty years to make a man of the boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

4. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

5. Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

6. No man expects a great deal from marriage. He is quite satisfied if his wife is a good cook, a good valet, an attentive audience, and a patient nurse.

7. Do not marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.

8. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for inattention of one.