Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
They want a cook in the film as well. They asked me if I knew of anybody suitable. You said just now. Madame, that times were hard. …Would you like me to get you the engagement?
(a) Who were ‘they’ and what did they want?
(b) Who had said that “times were hard” and to whom?
(c) What did the speaker say about the ‘engagement’?
(a) ‘They’ were the people at Join villa Studio. They wanted someone to play the role of a cook in their forthcoming film.
(b) Once Juliette, disappointed and dejected, declared that “times were very hard” for her. She was speaking to her maid.
(c) The speaker told Juliette that she had already talked to the people at the Studio regarding her role as a cook in the film. She was only waiting for her reply.