Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
Marie: Pardon, Madam, but I think it was for Mere Gringoire.
Persome: Mere Gringorie indeed. Mere Gringoire. What, the old witch who lives at the top of the hill, and who says she is bedridden because she is too lazy to do any work? And what did Mere Gringoire want with the money, pray?
(a) What was done for Mere Gringoire?
(b) Why does Persome refer to Mere Gringoire as an old witch?
(c) What does the extract reveal about Persome’s character?
(a) The Bishop had to sell his salt-cellars to pay the house rent of Mere Gringoire.
(b) Persome does so as she feels Mere Gringoire is wicked and selfish woman.
(c) The extract reveals that Persome is short-tempered and narrow-minded. She is not generous like her brother.