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“You said just now, Madame, that times were hard… Would you like me to get you the engagement? (a) Who speaks these lines and to whom? (b) Were ‘times’ really bad for Madame? (c) What ‘engagement’ was the speaker talking about?

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Read the extract given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:

“You said just now, Madame, that times were hard…

Would you like me to get you the engagement?

(a) Who speaks these lines and to whom?

(b) Were ‘times’ really bad for Madame?

(c) What ‘engagement’ was the speaker talking about?

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(a) These lines are spoken by the Maid to the Juliette.

(b) Yes, the times were really bad for the Madame. She was hard pressed for money.

(c) The speaker was talking about the rote of a cook in a film.

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