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'And you came mighty near missing the train at Powhatan Junction, too’, says she, with a laugh that sounded as good as a mileage-book to me. (a) Who is the speaker? (b) What do you think of her? (c) What does ‘mighty’ mean here?

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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :

'And you came mighty near missing the train at Powhatan Junction, too’, says she, with a laugh that sounded as good as a mileage-book to me.

(a) Who is the speaker?

(b) What do you think of her?

(c) What does ‘mighty’ mean here?

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(a) Jessie, the girl whom John Pescud chased for long and then married, is the speaker here.

(b) She is a clever and intelligent girl with a sense of keen observation.

(c) ‘very’.

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