5. Explain and develop the following ideas from the text.

“Now, however, although Mor had no expectation of joy from her (Rain’s) coming, he was in an agony lest she should not come’.

“I am sorry. I ought not to have asked you to dine or said yes to your invitation. No more need be said. Please pardon my part in all this”.

“Mor felt, it is fate, it is not our will. We have both struggled against it. But it has been too strong”.

‘If our feelings are not clear now, they will never be clear. If there is something called being in love, then we are in love”.

6. Be ready to discuss the following topics.

1. Mor’s preparations to the private party.

2. Rain’s courage to come.

3. Nan’s appearing.

4. Weather.

7. Retell the chapter with the help of the active vocabulary. Chapter 12

1. Find the following word combinations in the chapter. Remember the situations where they occur. Give synonyms to them.

• to be disquieted at sth

• to find smb palpably in the wrong

• fidelity

• to conceal smb distress from sb

• a condition of mental turmoil

• to adjust the appearance

• to be in extremis

• to trail away into a wail

• the brim of sth

• to whimper at the idiocy of sth

• a little caper

2. Answer the following questions. Use the active vocabulary.

1. How did Nan discover Mor’s affair? What was her reaction like?

2. Did Nan expect to see a guilty pair in her house? Why did she turn and run?

3. Where did Nan go? Why?

4. Why did Tim lie to Nan? What was his reaction to Nan’s visit like? Why?

5. Why did Nan feel desperately to stay and talk to Tim?

6. What happened when Nan came back home? What did Nan and Mor speak about?

7. What did Nan worry when the nightmare was at an end?

3. Translate the following extract in a proper manner from English into Russian.

“It was a quarter past nine ...-… It was now almost totally dark outside”.

4. Explain and develop the following ideas from the text.

“She had never in her life allowed Bill to cause her real unhappiness”.

“The real pain after all was not that the world had fallen into little pieces. That was a relief from pain. It was rather that the world remained, whole, ordinary, and relentlessly to be lived in … She would cope with this”.

“You’ve got yourself into a sentimental state about this girl. All right. There’s nothing terrible about that. But whatever there is to it, now you must just stop. Your own good sense must tell you what to do here and how to do it”.

5. Be ready to discuss the following topics.

1) Nan at Tim Burke’s house.

2) Conversation between Nan and Mor.

6 .Make up a short summary of the chapter. Use the active vocabulary from the book. Chapter 13

1. Translate the following phrases and search the text to find and speak about the situations where they occur.

• denomination

• to be fiercely and impenitently intact

• to dislocate sb’s love

• to release sb from a spell

• a secluded meeting place

• to be a part of madness

• to be deeply rooted in sb’s own life

• to want regardless of convention

• to alter the atmosphere

• a patient expression

2. a) Answer the following questions.

1. Why was Mor sitting in the school chapel if he was known not having religious faith?

2. What was the chapel like? How were the functions organized?

3. What was Mor thinking about in the chapel?

4. What was a great favourite with the school?

5. Why did Mor ask Rain to come to the squash courts?

6. Whom did Mor meet at the court? Why? What was the matter of their talk?

7. What puzzled Bledyard? Why?

b) Say if the following sentences are true or false:

1) Mor was sitting in the temple.

2) Mor was thinking about Rain.

3) Rain refused to see Mor again.

4) Mor was full of anger with Nan.

5) Evvy was a good talker. His service was interesting and absorbing.

6) Bledyard was in love with Rain.

7) Mor agreed to break up relations with Rain.

8) Mor and Bledyard went to school as it was getting dark.