Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
What’s more, they would bring the whole tribe of your sister’s children with them. No! I am very fond of your family, but not quite so fond as that.
(a) Who is the speaker and what is the occasion?
(b) What is the speaker’s fear?
(c) Explain: “but not quite so fond as that.”
(a) Mr. Gaston is the speaker of these lines. He has come with his wife Jeanne to see Juliette’s villa which is for sale.
(b) The speaker knows that his wife Jeanne is buying the villa to put her father and mother in it. His fear is that they will also bring her sister’s children to live with them.
(c) Mr. Gaston says that he is quite fond of her wife’s family. But he reminds her very frankly that he is not so fond of her family as to keep her sister’s children with him in his house.