2. He was complacency itself, and we could not get on well.
3. Come, come, there's nothing to be panic-stricken about.
4. You needn't take unnecessary risks.
5. If you don't take all precautions...
6. His shrewd eyes rested on me for a moment.
7. Why should I hold you in contempt? Who am I to put on frills?
8. We had turned the matter over in our minds before we came to t hat conclusion.
4. Recount the situations from the chapters under discussion in which the active vocabulary is employed.
5. Paraphrase or explain:
1. He's made a science of popularity.
2. Of course he will get on. He knows all the official ropes.
3. When I'm there you are acting both of you, and acting damned badly, by George. You'd neither of you get thirty bob a week in a touring company if that's the best you can do.
6. Say under what circumstances and why this happened:
1. Kitty passed through the country with unseeing eyes.
2. ...I've ordered your dinner and I've invited myself.
3. ...Kitty found herself much alone.
4. ...she brought the conversation round to Charlie.
5. ...they ate salad every night.
6. 
He is doctoring the sick, clearing the city up, trying to get the drinking water pure.
7. She could not hold back the sob that choked her. 
III. TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
1. Kitty's state of mind on the way to their destination.
2. Gather as much information as possible about the epidemic and the state of things in Mei-tan-fu.
3. Speak about Waddington. Dwell on the way he treated life, people at large and the situation in Mei-tan-fu.
4. Kitty's mode of life and state of mind in the new place. Compare them with Walter's.
5. Discuss the change in Kitty's attitude to Townsend. Speak about Kitty's talk with Waddington about Townsend,
Waddington's opinion of him. Point out his utterances that Kitty must have been hurt by.
6. Walter's work and popularity in Mei-tan-fu.
IV. QUESTIONS
1. On the way to Mei-tan-fu Kitty asked herself questions. Try and answer them from your own point of view.
a) ...she had never known that one could suffer so much; and she asked herself desperately what she had done to deserve it.
b) Did you cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?
c) Was it possible that his love had left him (Walter) entirely? Was it possible that he really designed her death?
2. Was Kitty cowardly by nature? How did Kitty feel about the epidemic and her role in Mei-tan-fu?