LILY AS A COLLECTIBLE/COMMODITY

Question 1

I.13 (1st)

Answer 1

what’s a woman want with jewels when she’s got herself to show?

Question 2

I.2

Answer 2

[Gryce anecdotally encapsulated] as the young man who had promised his mother never to go out in the rain without his overshoes; and acting on this hint, she resolved to impart a gently domestic air to the scene, … would merely be led to dwell on the advantage of always having a companion to make one’s tea in the train.

Question 3

I.1

Answer 3

Mr. Rosedale stood scanning her with interest and approval. …small sidelong eyes which gave him the air of appraising people as if they were bric-a-brac.

Question 4

I.14

Answer 4

if I could get Paul Morpeth to paint her like that, the picture’d appreciate a hundred per cent in ten years.

Question 5

I.13 (2nd)

Answer 5

Oh, I’m not asking for payment in kind. But there’s such a thing as fair play—and interest on one’s money—

Question 6

I.7

Answer 6

This vast mysterious Wall Street world of “tips” and “deals”

Question 7

II.11

Answer 7

Since she had been brought up to be ornamental, she could hardly blame herself for failing to serve any practical purpose;