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09/02/2021 6:56 pm
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:
“I am going upstairs for a moment. If that is the lady, tell her I will not be long. It won’t do to give her the impression that I am waiting for her.”
(a) Who speaks these words to whom?
(b) Who is the ‘lady’ here? Why is she expected to visit the speaker?
(c) What does the speaker try to pretend here?
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09/02/2021 6:57 pm
(a) Juliette to her maid.
(b) The lady is Jeanne who had come to see the villa.
(c) Juliette was trying to show that she was not waiting for Jeanne. She didn’t want to seem too eager.