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09/02/2021 7:01 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) Why is the speaker going upstairs?
(b) ‘It Won’t do to give her the impression’, what impression is the speaker talking about?
(c) What character traits of the speaker are revealed in the above passage?
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09/02/2021 7:01 pm
(a) The speaker is going upstairs to avoid the lady.
(b) The speaker is talking about the impression that there were no buyers for the villa.
(c) The speaker is calculating, clever and pretentious.