Question

At her age one could never tell but my grandmother could.What would one never tell?What was grandmother sure of?

Answer 1

in the given question one could never tell refers to grandmother was very old and hence she may die at any time ... no one ever in this mortal world ever predicts about death but grandmother did it ... when it was her last moments she told that her end was near and in place of wasting time talking with family she preferred to pray .. hence so

Answer 2

Answer:

At her age one could be never sure of the time of death. But the grandmother was very sure of her time of death.

Explanation:

• This is an excerpt from The Portrait of a Lady by Khushwant Singh.
• The author beautifully describes his relationship with his grandmother.
• This story is a loving tribute by Khushwant Singh to her grandmother.
• Khushwant Singh’s grandmother is a religious lady who is short, fat, and slightly bent.
• She had a wrinkled face and always wore white clothes.
• Thus, it was hard for him to believe that she was beautiful in her young days.
• His grandmother took care of him as a child. She would feed him, teach him, and bathe him.
• The turning point came when the author moved to the city to stay with his parents.
• As the years passed, they saw less of each other.
• The common link of friendship between them was shattered.
• My grandmother became lonely and accepted her loneliness in silence.
• After five years, the author found the grandmother in a station.
• That evening, something strange happened to her.
• She didn’t pray for the first time in her life.
• She started singing songs about the homecoming of warriors with an old drum.
• Everybody tried to stop her, but in vain.
• Later she was diagnosed with mild fever, and she insisted that her death was nearing.
• Thus, she didn’t want to talk to anybody, rather spend her last moments praying.
• Soon, the author saw that her lips stopped moving and the rosery fell from her hands.