7. Kitty found the work a refreshment to her spirit.
8. But suddenly the child, with an idiot perversity, left her; it seemed to lose interest in her, and that day and the following days paid her no attention.
10. Confirm or disprove the statements:
1. "... That sort of thing doesn't mean very much to a woman when it's over. I think women have never quite understood the attitude that men take up."
2. "... I suppose I shouldn't have been taken in by him if I hadn't been as worthless as he...."
3. "It's not fair to blame me because I was silly and frivolous and vulgar. I was brought up like that...."
4. "...one cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul."
III. QUESTIONS AND TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
1. Waddington speaks to Kitty about the convent. Why was he, not Walter, chosen the bearer of a message to her?
2. Discuss the convent, the nuns and their work. What was its underlying motive? What was Waddington's opinion of the' nuns and their activities?
3. Speak about the people and things that struck Kitty at the convent. Dwell on the things Kitty learned about her husband.] Did they make her form another opinion of him?
4. Kitty speaks with Walter about their future and past. Comment upon the new view she took of her adultery. Point out the fragments of her talk that might have caused Walter's great exasperation; Find proof, that she treated adultery much, tighter than her husband.
5. Discuss the work Kitty was set to do at the convent and the way she treated its repulsive sides.
6. Speak of the author as master of the suggestive detail (the episodes with the beggar in the street, with the idiot girl at the convent, and some others).
7. Find proof that Kitty's perception of some people and things was that of a commonplace philistine.
ASSIGNMENT 6
Chapters L-LVII
I. ACTIVE VOCABULARY
wicked to throw everything
to love smb to distraction to the winds
to distract one's mind to be seized with terror (horror, panic, etc.)
to regain one's spirits
to attach importance to smth to be overwhelmed with joy
inscrutable nuisance
to be a blow (a wound) to one's vanity petty
sensitive to summon up one's resolution (courage, will)
II. EXERCISES
1. Give definitions using an English-English dictionary; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:
wicked; to regain one's spirits; inscrutable; sensitive; to be overwhelmed with joy; nuisance; petty; to summon up one's resolution; to distract one's mind
2. Translate into Russian. Make up sentences of your own:
a) a wicked man (child, smile, look, remark, behaviour, action); an inscrutable smile (face, countenance), inscrutable eyes, inscrutable ways of nature; a sensitive child (girl, plant, flower, skin); sensitive to blame (beauty, charm, heat, cold, the Min, gossip); a petty man (snob, trouble, offence); petty vindictiveness (snobbery, wickedness, feelings, regulations)
b) 1. Don't let any petty feeling come between us. 2. It was wicked of your friend to bring that girl to the party. 3. I am sorry if I am a nuisance, but do you mind changing places with me? 4. The rumour had it that I had been too sensitive to your criticism. Don't you believe it, it was somebody's wicked tongue, no more. 5. I don't attach much importance to what
ant people have to say on the subject. 6. When your face 
becomes inscrutable, I am prepared for the worst. 7. Summon up your courage and face reality, man! You can't live on make-believe all your life. 8. When I read that story, I was seized with horror. 9. The story runs that a young girl loved a boy to distraction and when she was ready to throw everything to the winds for his sake, she encountered him with another girl in the street. It was a mortal blow to her vanity. To distract her mind, she married another man, old enough to be her father, to fim out later that that girl was her boy's aunt. A charming story, isn't it? I could hardly regain my spirits for laughing my head off, after reading it. Love is blind.
3. Paraphrase using the active vocabulary:
1. When the youth became an officer, his joy knew no bounds.
2. The young mother loved her child madly.
3. Turn off the radio, it is getting on my nerves.
4. None of the soldiers was panic-stricken at the sight of the approaching enemy.
5. Time is the best healer: in a month after the accident the girl became her former self again.
6. Do you really find my opinion so important?
7. He was mortified by his girl marrying his bitterest enemy.
8. She wondered if there was a man who could ruin his; future, make a sacrifice of his career, forget himself for' her sake.