Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
Not at all. Mind you, if someone had bought it on the very day I placed it for safe, then I might have felt sorry because I would have wondered if I hadn’t been a fool to sell it at all. But the sign has been hanging on the gate for over a month now and I am beginning to be afraid that the day I bought it was when I was the real fool.”
(a) How would the speaker have felt if someone had bought the villa on the very day she placed it for sale?
(b) What has been hanging on the gate for over a month now?
(c) How does the speaker feel now?
(a) If someone had bought the villa on the very day she placed it for sale, the speaker might have felt sorry. She would have wondered if she had been a fool to sell at all.
(b) The sign ‘Villa for Sale’ has been hanging on the gate for over a month now.
(c) The speaker feels that she was the real fool the day she brought that villa.