Mansfield, Mrs Brill

Question 1

‘They were all…’

Answer 1

‘They were all on the stage’

Question 2

What stops the young couple from getting more intimate?

Answer 2

Mrs Brills presence, she seems to fancy herself for a kind of flaneur figure, however the young couple not only notice Mrs Brill, but suggest that she has a reputation as being ‘that silly old thing’ who people presumably hope to avoid in the park

‘Not here’
‘Why? Because of that silly old thing? Why does she come here at all?’

Question 3

‘We understand, she thought…’

Answer 3

‘We understand, she thought - though what she understood she did not quite know’