6. Recall the situations from the book where the active vocabulary is used.

7. Paraphrase or explain:

1. And yet all round about the epidemic was raging and the people were kept in check but by the strong will of a soldier who was more than half a brigand.

2. He told her nothing of his work, but even in the old days hi had been reticent on this: he was not by nature expansive.

3. ... it was difficult to imagine, on that blithe, fresh, and Hulling morn, that the city lay gasping, like a man whose life is being throttled out of him by a maniac's hands, in the dark clutch of the pestilence.

4. ... but the Mother Superior paid no attention to her entreaties and Kitty stood sufficiently in awe of her not to be importunate.

8. Point out historical, political or social causes behind the state of things:

1. "... We English have no very strong attachment to the toil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world, ..."

2. She had grown used to the untidiness of a Chinese street, but here was the litter of weeks, garbage and refuse; and the stench was so horrible that she had to put her handkerchief to her face.

3. Two of our girls have been attacked this morning and nothing but a miracle can save them. These Chinese have no resistance.

9. Find the underlying reasons for:

1. She shuddered a little, for in their uniform dress, sallow-skinned, stunted, with their flat noses, they looked to her hardly human. They were repulsive.

2. "The lady's husband will be pleased with them," ... "I think he could play by the hour with the babies...."

1. By some magic he seemed able by his mere presence to relieve your suffering.

2. She alone had been blind to his merit.

3. There was a barrier between her and them (the nuns)

4. ‘It is not easy work or pleasant work. I doubt if it would amuse you long."

5. Kitty found the work a refreshment to her spirit.

6. 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.