Question

1. Did you begin to suspect, before the end of the story, that the lady
was not the person Horace Danby took her to be? If so, at what
point did you realise this, and how?​

Answer 1

Answer:

When the woman says that she usually likes the wrong kind of people she is actually giving herself away. No woman in possession of riches and wealth would keep the company of bad people. Moreover instead of allowing a stranger to break open the safe she would have attempted to get the password or would have gone without the jewels. A respectful woman would never want to let a thief get away but the lady in the story allowed Horace to get away.

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Answer 2

: Required Answer

$\longrightarrow$ Yes, we began to suspect before the story ended that the lady was the actual culprit who tricked Horace Danby to believe her. We have noticed that she was unusually calm when she saw Horace trying to break the lock of the safe. This seemed weird because if she had been a family member of Shotover Grange, then she would have raised a theft alarm immediately. On the contrary, she approached Horace from the doorway and asked him to take out all the jewels from the safe on the condition that she would not inform the police and let him walk out freely. All these events seemed suspicious and it was highly unlikely that she was a family member of the house and had forgotten the number combination to open the safe. Therefore, it was evident and quite clear that she was just using Horace to break open the safe for her. Long before the story ended, we could come to the conclusion that the lady was the real culprit and definitely not the one whom Horace had believed her to be.