Question

Question 1. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: “It’s Miss Fairchild, “he said, with a smile. “I’ll ask you to excuse the other hand: it’s otherwise engaged just at present.” He slightly raised his right hand, bound at the wrist by the shining “bracelet” to the left one of his companion. i. Describe the companion of ‘he’. ii. What is the shining ‘bracelet’ referred to here? How did the person spoken to react on seeing the bracelet?

Answer 1

Explanation:

i)The companion of he (Mr.Easton) is a Marshal who is taking him to Leavenworth prison because he was found guilty for counterfeiting and will be kept there for seven years in prison.

ii)Here,the shining bracelet is reffered to the handcuff.

Answer 2

i) ‘he’ is Mr. Easton and his companion was criminal as he told. But in Last it came to know that actual criminal was Mr. Easton

ii) ‘ shinning bracelet’ is handcuffs. she was shocked and scared.