Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
Oh, mon Dieu! it is hopeless, hopeless. We shall have nothing left. His estate is sold, his savings have gone. His furniture, everything. Were it not for my little dot we should starve! And now my beautiful-beautiful (sob) salt cellars. Ah, it is too much, too much. (She breaks down crying.)
(a) Who says the situation is hopeless and why?
(b) What saved them from starving?
(c) Find a word in the extract having same meaning as ‘Property.
(a) Persome, Bishop’s sister feels that her brother’s actions have brought them in a hopeless situation. He has sold his estate, furniture and spent all his savings. They have nothing left now.
(b) Persome thinks that the little dowry that she had helped them from starving.
(c) Estate.