a visit

Question 1

The lithe, muscular shape coming into my room, treading softly on velvet paws, coming straight to the bed without hesitation as if perfectly familiar with it’s position

Question 2

I noticed something singularly human about the skull…suggesting the possibility of superior brain development inside

Question 3

’ a wild primeval sense of sunshine, freedom, moon and crushed leaves’

Question 4

‘I called him and fed him with some meat I had in the house’

Question 5

‘he looked at me with his large lustrous eyes, seeming to understand what I had said’

Question 6

“His movements were always silent, graceful, dignified, sure.

Question 7

I was delighted with my visitor, whose silence did not conceal his awareness for me

Question 8

Then, without warning he suddenly left me

Question 9

Nothing of any interest took place after the leopard’s visit

Question 10

It revived my hope of seeing the leopard again

Question 11

A young man coming towards land…his red cloak blowing out in the wind

Question 12

I was paralysed by depression and disappointment

Question 13

they seem to weigh me down with the obscure bitterness of a loss which should have been prevented, for which I am myself to blame