Chapter 11 quotes

Question 1

‘Some two weeks later…

Answer 1

…Newland Archer, sitting in abstracted idleness in his private compartment of the office of Letterblair’

Question 2

‘Theoretically, the idea of…

Answer 2

…divorce was almost as distasteful to him as to his mother: and he was annoyed that Mr Letterblair should be so evidently planning to draw him into the affai’

Question 3

‘she stood before him…

Answer 3

…as exposed as a pitiful figure, to be saved at all costs from farther wounding herself in her mad plunges against fate’

Question 4

‘belief in the abysmal…

Answer 4

…distinction between the woman one loved and respected and those one enjoyed and pitied’

Question 5

‘it was undoubtedly foolish…

Answer 5

… of the man but somehow always criminal of the woman’

Question 6

’ “The whole family are against divorce…

Answer 6

… and I think rightly” Archer instantly felt himself on the other side of the argument’

Question 7

“You mean the threat…

Answer 7

… in her husbands letter? What weight would that carry? It’s no more than the vague charge of an angry black guard”