3. The author of the play condemns the snobbery and conceit of fashionable society.
4. Nowadays people are fairly broadminded about early marriages.
5. You can't take your health for granted all your life.
6. On the New Year's eve people wonder what the coming уear has in store for them.
7. You might have made a better job of your translation.
8. Mr. Murdstone made David work from morning till night without the slightest compunction.
9. If you really want to break with the past, give up your bad habits altogether.
10. Even in an emergency you can't make claims on absolute strangers.
11. Strickland was in his forties when he disowned his family on a sudden.
6. Make up situations on the subject-matter of the books or plays you have seen or read, using the active vocabulary.
7. Recall the situations from the chapters under discussion relying on the prompts:
1. You can hardly expect me to forget that you sent me to almost certain death without a shadow of compunction.
2. I'm not that hateful, beastly, lustful woman. I disown her.
3. It's so unreasonable, the way you look at it; it's so morbid.
4. Well, I'm fairly broadminded, but sometimes you say things that positively shock me.
5. He would heave a sigh of relief when ... he had finally seen her off.
6. ...he had never counted in the house and had been taken for granted...
7. ...now this chance to break entirely with the past had offered him freedom.
8. ...I make no claims on you because I'm your daughter, you owe me nothing.
9. ...I want her to take life like a free man and make a better job of it than I have.
10. She could not know what the future had in store for her…
8. Say who and under what circumstances made these utterances:
1. She is one in a thousand. I should never have had a moment’s peace if we'd bolted.
2. It was fair game.
3. He died because of you and me.
4. Have you ever thought that you owned her any loyalty?
5. Am I by any chance the father?
6. The offer arrived too late to tell your poor mother.
9. Make a list of the proverbs Townsend used when he talked to Kitty. Say what he implied by them and why he, of all people, resorted to them. (Add those from chapters XX and XXI.)
III. Questions and topics for discussion
1. Townsend and Kitty have a talk by themselves. Why could Townsend not do without that talk? Pay attention to his speech and manner.
2. How did Kitty regard her fall? Can you justify it psychologically? Whom did she blame for it?
3. Kitty makes arrangements before leaving Hong Kong. Discuss her last talk with Townsend. Compare what she had told Walter about her child's father with what she told Townsend.
4. Speak about the changes in the Garstin family. Account for Kitty's reaction to her mother's death. What did Mrs. Garstin's death mean for the whole family?