3.Answer the following questions.

1. What did Anson do in 1922?

2. Why did people trust him?

3. What was typical of him? Why?

4. Why did Anson invite the author to family dinners?

5. What was Dolly’s background?

6. What did she look like?

7. What did Dolly like about Anson?

8. What was Mrs. Karger’s attitude to Anson?

9. Why did Anson develop his affair with Dolly if he despised unstable women?

10. What did Dolly feel catching sight of Paula’s picture?

11. What happened after their visit to the Linx Club?

4.Which sentences are true?

1. At 27 Anson was stout with a manner older than his years.

2. Uncle Robert and his wife Edna had been Anson’s great friends.

3. Dolly was the daughter of a lawyer who had married into a society.

4. Dolly was slackly and indiscreetly wild.

5. Mrs. Karger didn’t believe that Anson could be reliable.

6. Anson was jealous – Dolly meant everything to him.

7. The estate in Port Washington belonged to Anson’s cousin.

8. After dinner they danced at the Linx Club.

9. Anson believed in God.

5.Put the events in the chronological order.

1. Mrs. Karger allowed Dolly to go with Anson to distant country clubs.

2. Dolly caught sight of Paula’s picture.

3. Uncle Robert slipped out of Anson’s life.

4. Anson was taken into the firm.

5. Anson took up the commanding position in Dolly’s heart.

6. Anson’s father died.

6. Reproduce the situations in which the following sentences are used.

1. Life has made a cynic of me.

2. … This world was composed of varying elements.

3. Like most compromises, it had neither force nor vitality but only a timorous despair.

4. The frame gleamed faintly with thrice-reflected moonlight.

7.Find evidence to prove that

1. Anson had a manner older than his years.

2. Anson had an instinctive and rather charitable knowledge of the weaknesses of men and women.

3. Anson and Uncle Robert had been very friendly.

4. Odd things happened to Anson and he accepted them humorously.

5. Dolly and Paula were quite different.

6. Dolly understood that it was going to be difficult to have a serious affair with Anson.

8.Describe

1.Uncle Robert.

2.Dolly Karger.

9.Comment on the following.

1. Anson’s attitude toward girls was not indiscriminately protective.

2. Anson felt that life was hemming him in.

VI

1.Transcribe and give equivalents tf the following words.

to patch up to take smth for granted to be sacred to smb circumspect to go astray equanimity congenial to father to fall for to persist in smth to rejoice in smth to be just this side of forty a reversion to buoy up peremptory to be bound to do smth to take advantage of smth

chivalry to shoulder one’s way to come to grips with smb to bully smb into despair to lose one’s temper to discharge to get hold of smth disquisition to cross the line dalliance to seal vagary obdurate maudlin to gain confidence desolate to resort