REPUTATION

Question 1

I.1

Answer 1

What did the creature suppose? … odious conjecture

Question 2

I.3

Answer 2

Shut the pantry door. … don’t talk to the servants

Question 3

I.9 (1st)

Answer 3

the volcanic nether side of the surface over which conjecture and innuendo glide so lightly till the first fissure turns their whisper to a shriek.

Question 4

I.2

Answer 4

Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape from routine? Why could one never do a natural thing without having to screen it behind a structure of artifice?

Question 5

I.11

Answer 5

“Who told you that my niece played cards for money?”

Question 6

I.9 (2nd)

Answer 6

The code of Lily’s world decreed that a woman’s husband should be the only judge of her conduct: … the possessor of his wife’s letters could overthrow with a touch the whole structure of her existence.

Question 7

II.4 (1st)

Answer 7

yet she had been perfectly aware from the outset that her part in the affair was, as Carry Fisher brutally put it, to distract Dorset’s attention from his wife. That was what she was “there for”: it was the price she had chosen to pay for three months of luxury and freedom from care.

Question 8

II.4 (2nd)

Answer 8

What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it’s the story that’s easiest to believe. In this case it’s a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset’s story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box,