Hearts and Hands

Question 1

Author of Hearts and Hands

Answer 1

William Sydney Porter, under the pen name O. Henry

Question 2

Name of train

Answer 2

B & M. Express

Question 3

Where did the train in Hearts and Hands start?

Answer 3

Denver

Question 4

Description of Miss Fairchild

Answer 4

“A very pretty young woman dressed in elegant taste and surrounded by all the luxurious comforts of an experienced traveler”

Question 5

Description of Mr Easton

Answer 5

“A young man of handsome presence with a bold, frank countenance and manner”

Question 6

Description of grim looking mna

Answer 6

“A ruffled, glum-faced young man, heavily built and roughly dressed”

Question 7

How did Miss Fairchild respond to Mr. Easton and the glum-faced man getting seated?

Answer 7

First, her glance fell upon them with a distant, swift disinterest.

Then, with a lovely smile brightening her countenance and a tender pink tingeing her round cheeks, she held out a little gray-gloved hand.

Question 8

Description of Miss Fairchild’s voice

Answer 8

She had a voice which as full, sweet and deliberate. It proclaimed that its owner(Miss Fairchild) was accustomed to speak and be heard.

Question 9

How did Mr. Easton respond to Miss Fairchild speaking?

Answer 9

First, he roused himself sharply at the sound of her voice. He seemed to struggle with a slight embarrassment, which he threw off instantly, and then he clasped her fingers with his left hand.

Question 10

How did Miss Fairchild respond to seeing that Mr. Easton’s hand was cuffed?

Answer 10

The glad look in the girl’s eyes slowly changed to a bewildered horror. The glow faded from her cheeks. Her lips parted in a vague, relaxing distress.

Question 11

The glum faced man had been watching the girl’s countenance with ___

Answer 11

veiled glances from his keen, shrewd eyes

Question 12

Who did the glum-faced man say the Marshall was?

Answer 12

Mr. Easton

Question 13

What did the glum-faced man ask Miss Fairchild to do?

Answer 13

He asked Miss Fairchild to speak “a word” for him when they get to the “pen”. This would “make things easier” for him there.

Question 14

What punishment was the glum-faced man allegedly facing and why:?

Answer 14

The glum-faced man was facing seven years of imprisonment in Leavenworth prison for counterfeiting.

Question 15

How does Mr. Easton respond to Miss Fairchild being told that he is a marshal?

Answer 15

Mr. Easton responds by continuing the illusion. He says that he “had to do something”. He says that money has a way of “taking wings unto itself”. He says that it takes money to “step up” with his and Miss Fairchild’s “crowd” in Washington. He said that he saw an opening in the west and that Marshalship isn’t as high a position as that of the ambassador.

Question 16

What does Miss Fairchild say regarding the ambassador?

Answer 16

She says that the ambassador doesn’t call anymore, and that he need not have ever done so.

Question 17

How does Miss Fairchild describe Marshals?

Answer 17

She describes Marshals are “dashing Western heroes” who “ride” and “shoot” and go into “all kinds of danger”.

Question 18

How does Mr. Easton respond to Ms. Fairchild asking if he will be seen again in Washington?

Answer 18

Mr. Easton says that he won’t be seen in Washington soon because he fears that his “butterfly days are over”.

Question 19

Why does Mr. Easton say that his butterfly days are over?

Answer 19

By saying that his butterfly days are over, Mr. Easton is hinting at his future imprisonment. Miss Fairchild, not knowing about this imprisonment, interprets this message as Mr. Easton saying that his social days are over.

Question 20

How does Miss Fairchild speak about her personal circumstances?

Answer 20

truly and simply without the gloss of style and manner

Question 21

“I love the West” monologue

Answer 21

Miss Fairchild and her mother spent the summer in Denver. Her mother went home a week prior to the story because her father was slightly ill. She says that she could be happy in the West. She says that the air of the west agrees with her, that money isn’t everything and that people always misunderstand things and remain stupid before being interrupted by the glum-faced man.

Question 22

What is the reason for Mr. Easton and the glum-faced man leaving?

Answer 22

The reason given by the glum-faced man is that the glum-faced man needs a drink and that Mr. Easton has not had a smoke all day.

Question 23

How does one passenger realise that the glum-faced man is the Marshal?

Answer 23

He notices that Mr. Easton’s right hand was cuffed with the glum-faced man’s left hand. An officer does not handcuff a prisoner to his right hand.

Question 24

What is one passenger’s reaction to the conversation?

Answer 24

He says that the marshal is a “good sort of chap” and that some of the “Western fellows” are “all right”.