Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
Oh! I’m fed up with the place. Because nobody really wants it! What time did those agency people say the lady would call?
(a) Who was fed up with the place and why?
(b) Who was coming and what was her objective of coming there?
(c) Was the speaker really ready to sacrifice her villa ‘at any price’?
(a) Juliette, the owner of the villa was fed up with the place as she couldn’t get a suitable buyer for it. She was distressed at not selling it as she had expected.
(b) Mr. Gaston and Jeanne were coming to see and buy Juliette’s villa.
(c) No, the speaker, Juliette was only pretending to sacrifice her villa at any price. She wanted not even a franc less than two hundred thousand, twice the actual cost of the villa.