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3. Use the words given in brackets to form words that fit in the spaces.

  1. In this particular hive she was _____ (doubt) queen bee.

  2. “It would be too _____ (heart),” she whispered when they were alone for a moment.

  3. The prospect of being left alone with the Young Man seemed suddenly _____ (endure).

  4. If her husband were to go now, he would take with him the third dimension that had given the affair _____ (deep), and abandon her to a flat and vulgar love scene.

  5. It was conceivable that her protestation of love had been misleading, and that his enormous _____ (tender) toward her had been based not on the idea that he was giving her up, but rather on the idea that he was taking her back – with no question asked.

  6. But that was, looked at coldly, _____ (think).

  7. The sun was very bright, and she felt a kind of superb pathos in the _____ (care) and _____ (relevance) attention they gave to the pastoral scene.

  8. She was wooing him all over again, but wooing him to a deeper attachment than he had previously experienced, to an _____ (condition) surrender.

  9. She was demanding his total understanding of her, his compassion, and his _____ (forgive).

  10. A compulsive didacticism possessed her: no truism of his, no cliché, no _____ (effect) joke could pass the rigidity of her ____ (censor).

Grammar Tasks

1. Complete the sentences with the appropriate modal verb.

might

1. His overardent glance … be hastily deflected.

must

2. I … have gone on the stage, or been a diplomat’s wife or an international spy.

could

3. Actually, she doubted whether she … ever have been an actress, acknowledging that she found it more amusing and more gratifying to play herself than to interpret any character conceived by a dramatist.

should

4. In these private theatricals it was her own many-faceted nature that she put on exhibit, and the audience, in this case unfortunately limited to two, … applaud both her skill of projection and her intrinsic variety.

could

5. These endearments of hers were sanctioned by law, usage, and habit; they belonged to her role of wife and … be condemned or paralleled by a young man who was himself unmarried.

had

6. Eventually, however, her reluctance to wound her husband and her solicitude for his pride were overcome by an inner conviction that her love affair … move on to its next preordained stage.

could

7. So you … tell, even later on, that I told you about this today.

could not

8. I felt I … to talk to someone.

must

9. From her husband, at least, she … expect the favor of an open attack to which she … respond with the prepared defense that she carried, unspoken, about with her.

mustn’t

2. Complete these sentences with prepositions.

  1. She got no fun, she told the Young Man, … putting horns … her darling’s head, and never … a moment, she said, did he appear … her as the comic figure … the cuckolded husband that one saw … the stage.

  2. To meet … a friend’s house … design and to register surprise, to strike just the right note … young-matronly affection … cocktail parties, to treat him formally as “my escort” … the theatre … intermissions – these were triumphs … stage management, more difficult … execution, more nerve-racking than the lunches and teas, because two actors were involved.

  3. She loved him, she knew, … being a bad actor, … his docility … accepting her tender, mock-impatient instruction.

  4. Though she was aware … the sadistic intention … these displays, she was not ashamed … them, as she was something twistingly ashamed … the hurt she was preparing to inflict … her husband.

  5. … this time a touch … acridity entered … her relations … the Young Man.

  6. She would look … dark spots … his character and drill away … them as relentlessly as a dentist … a cavity.

  7. And, as it turned … , the drama … the triangle was not quite ended … the superficial rupture … her marriage.

  8. It was natural, … course, that everyone should feel sorry … him, and be especially nice.

  9. “Yes,” she answered … her most humble and feminine tones, but she knew that they had suddenly dropped … a new pattern, that they wre no longer the cynosure … a social group, but merely another young couple … an evening to pass, another young couple looking desperately … entertainment, wondering whether to call … a married couple or to drop … somewhere … a drink.

  10. But the Young Man, she now saw, was merely a sort … mirage which she had allowed herself to mistake … an oasis.