Pages 72-83

Question 1

SIR WALTER

Am I well? I am splendid! Come in, come in.

Answer 1

Anne! You’ve come to see us at last.

Question 2

MRS. CLAY

Lovely, lovely. Miss Anne has come to join us at last!

Answer 2

It is not as I wrote you?

Question 3

MRS. CLAY

Through those doors is a second drawing room. And then there is a sitting room– for the family.

Answer 3

Not even Kellynch can boast two drawing rooms.

Question 4

SIR WALTER

Indeed it does, indeed it does. It’s as if we were born to live in this city. Our acquaintance is exceedingly sought after.

Answer 4

It’s true; everybody wants to visit us. We have begun to draw back from introductions, there are ever so many. Though we have been here since September, we are still perpetually having cards left by people of whom we know nothing.

Question 5

ANNE

I’m sure I cannot guess.

Answer 5

It’s our cousin, Mr. Elliot.

Question 6

SIR WALTER

Oh, bah. I’m not a hard man. All is in the past, and all is pardoned. He really is a tremendous young man.

Answer 6

Apparently, he sought us out almost immediately on his arrival in town, leaving his card that very first day.

Question 7

SIR WALTER

… Delicacy and discretion kept him silent all these years, not wishing to disturb us or arouse contention.

Answer 7

He was quite distressed at the possibility that he might have tarnished the family name.

Question 8

SIR WALTER

Yes, well. Two weeks, give or take.

Answer 8

We’ve never been ones to wallow.

Question 9

ANNE

It’s so strange. To think I just saw him in Lyme.

Answer 9

I suppose it might have been him. He carries himself so well, very much the ideal gentleman. He has a good-shaped face and a sensible eye.

Question 10

SIR WALTER

… It had been a frosty morning, to be sure, but still, there certainly are a dreadful multitude of ugly women in Bath.

Answer 10

And as for the men they are infinitely worse! The streets are full of scarecrows.

Question 11

MRS. CLAY

I know that knock. It’s Mr. Elliot’s knock.

Answer 11

He said he was to dine tonight in Lansdown Crescent, and that he may stop here after.

Question 12

MR. ELLIOT

Forgive the unusual hour, but I was passing by and could not go on without assuring myself that none of you had taken cold, as so many have as of late.

Answer 12

How good you are to think on us. But we are all in excellent health and spirits.

Question 13

MR. ELLIOT

I’m very glad to hear it.

Answer 13

We are also much more complete than when last we met.

Question 14

LADY RUSSELL

I would agree. Certain things are meant to be.

Answer 14

Mr. Elliot, you will be glad to know that we are attending the chamber concert in the Assembly Rooms this week. You will join us, I’m sure.

Question 15

MARY

… What an immense time Mrs. Clay has been staying with Elizabeth! Does she never mean to go away? Charles joins me in love, and everything proper. Yours, affectionately, Mary Musgrove (Mrs.).

Answer 15

So one of the Musgrove girls is to be married.

Question 16

ANNE

Both of them, actually. They are coming to Bath to look for wedding clothes.

Answer 16

Ah. How wonderful.

Question 17

ANNE

You should go, Elizabeth. The rain is trifling, and I don’t mind the walk.

Answer 17

Naturally, as the eldest, I should accompany Lady Dalrymple. It’s my place; what would people think if I didn’t?

Question 18

MR. ELLIOT

I would be glad to accompany Miss Anne among the puddles if she will allow me.

Answer 18

Then we shall go. Come, Penelope.

Question 19

MRS. CLAY

Miss Anne, you should attend your sister.

Answer 19

What?

Question 20

MR. ELLIOT

In my humble opinion, Miss Anne’s boots are indeed the thickest.

Answer 20

It’s just as well. Mrs. Clay has a little cold already and should not walk in the rain.