3. Give the summary of the chapters.

4. Analyse Julia’s and Dolly’s behaviour during their confidential talk. Comment upon Julia’s “solemn word of honour”. Which of Dolly’s remarks were somewhat a shock to Julia? How did it change her attitude to Tom?

5. Read, translate and comment on the passage on pp. 185-186 from “The strange thing was that…” to “… that galled her”.

6. Speak about Roger and Julia’s talk about his lost virginity and Julia’s reaction to it. What do we learn about:

• Julia’s attitude to her son;

• Julia’s attitude to love;

• Roger’s attitude to love and sex.

What is your attitude to love without sex and sex without love?

7. What is Julia’s attitude to Tom’s perfidies? Why couldn’t she break with him? Where did she find strength to put up with it?

8. Speak about Tom’s success among Julia’s friends of the high society and Julia’s attitude to it.

9. Speak about Julia’s talk with Joan Denver. Why did the author devote more than half a chapter to this talk?

10. What do we learn about Avice Crichton?

11. Comment upon:

1. “No one expected an actress to be a pattern of propriety”. (p.185)

2. “I don’t think it’s so much really. I don’t see it’s anything to make all that fuss about”. (p.188)

3. “…they mean pain and anguish, shame, ecstasy, heaven and hell; they mean the sense of living more intensely, and unutterable boredom; they mean freedom and slavery; they mean peace and unrest”. (p.189)

4. “I suppose it’s better to be a fool and know it than a fool and not know it”. (p.190)

5. “Don’t pause unless it’s necessary, but then pause as long as you can”. (p.198)

Task X. Chapters 21-22 (pp. 200-224)

1. Read, copy out the new words, be ready to translate and discuss the chapters.

2. Explain the meanings of the following expressions, memorize them, reproduce the situations they are used in:

1. to have a look-see

2. to beat nineteen to the dozen

3. not for toffee

4. hard as nails

5. to get one’s teeth into smth

6. to beat about the bush

7. to be in a hole

8. to give smb the air

9. to put one’s foot down

10. to turn the tables on smb

11. to love smb to distraction

12. to make a clean breast of smth

13. if you lose on the swings you’ll get back on the roundabouts

14. (to be) quite another pair of shoes

15. cannot hold a candle to smb