3.1 find it imprudent to go about bare-headed in frosty weather.
5. Discuss the episodes from the novel where the active vocabulary is employed.
6. Use the active vocabulary applying it to situations in the chapters previously read.
7. Paraphrase or explain:
1. ...at the memorial arch he said good-bye to her, and looking at it for the last time she felt that she could reply to the enigmatic irony of its appearance with an equal irony of her own.
2. The habiliments of woe could not but serve as an effective disguise to her unexpected feelings.
3.I know I can do nothing to make up for your terrible loss, but I want you to know how deeply, how sincerely I feel for you.
8. Say who and under what circumstances made these utterances. What feelings and motives were they prompted by?
1. Have you ever been to a symphony concert?
2. Walter died of a broken heart.
3. I wish he could have minded his own business.
4. 
The only thing that counts is the love of duty.
5. You can't go and live all by yourself in your own house.
6. He was a thundering good chap, and he'll be missed here more than I can say.
9. Discuss why these things happened or did not happen:
1. They gave up everything, their home, their country, love, children, freedom.
2. He was actually experimenting on himself.
3. She did not want the Mother Superior to see into her heart.
4. The convent door closed for the last time behind her.
5. She wondered if all her fellows had in their hearts I shameful secrets which they spent their time guarding from
curious glances.
6. She wished Dorothy Townsend would go away.
7. Kitty did not understand. She did not know what amends Charlie's wife owed her.
8. He began talking of the autumn race meeting, and the polo... and a chat he had had that morning with the Governor.
9. For a moment she had a picture before her mind's eye of the beggar... who had lain dead against the compound wall.
10. Dorothy had had a letter from him, and he had said all manner of things about her devoted work at the convent, about her courage and her self-control.
III. QUESTIONS AND TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
1. Walter's burial. Discuss Kitty's state of mind during the burial and after it. Does it strike you as unusual under the circumstances?
2. Kitty's talk with Waddington after the burial. How did I Kitty treat the nuns, their work and way of life? What weak 1 point did she find in their outlook? Comment upon Waddington's words about the meaning of human life.
3. Waddington breaks the news of the cause of Walter's death. How did Kitty react to it? Compare Waddington's version of the cause with Kitty's. Which was closer to the truth?
5. The Mother Superior insists on Kitty's leaving Mei-tan-fu. Why could she not understand Kitty's reluctance to go? I Point out facts confirming that she liked and respected Kitty.
6. Kitty's thoughts, feelings and plans on the way to Hong Kong. What did she appreciate most of all in her newly-acquired freedom? Why did she find it despicable to lie to herself?
7. Dorothy takes Kitty by surprise. What motives prompted Dorothy to offer Kitty hospitality? Why was Kitty reluctant to accept the offer? Do you think Dorothy knew about her husband's love affair with Kitty?
8. Why did Townsend not in the least look as Kitty had pictured him? Comment on his manner during Kitty's stay, rind proof that he did not quite share his wife's respect for Kitty.
9. Kitty's way of life at the Townsends'. What made her recall Mei-tan-fu every now and then? Comment on the change in her estimation in Hong Kong.