Questions 1. What made Ray think the visitor was not really a shopper? 2. Why do you think he had come to the shop? 3. How did Ray communicate with him? 4. What do you think the man said to his friend who waited at the door? 5. Ray was not a pawnbroker. Why then did he lend money to people in exchange for their old watches and clocks? 6. The watch was nothing special and yet had great powers In what sense did it have great powers 7. Do you think the man would ever come back to pick up the watch? 8. When did the unfriendly face" of the visitor turn truly friendly?
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1 Answer: Ray saw two men, one in his twenties, the other closer to fifty, enter his shop. ... On paying attention, Ray noticed the shape of a gun and a restless hand in the Mr.an's right coat packet. This made Ray think that the visitor was not really a shopper.
2 Ans: He had come to the shop because he was down on luck and in great need of money.
3 Ans: Ray could neither speak nor hear. So he communicated with his customer by writing his message on a notepad. The visitor also wrote his reply on paper.
4 Answer : I think that the man informed to his friend who waited at the door that the owner of the clock shop was unable to hear and speak. The two men who entered the shop was in his twenties and other was around fifty.
5 Answer: Though Ray was not a pawnbroker, but he used to lend money to people in exchange for their old watches and clocks because he was generous man who used to help people in need.
6 Ans: “The watch was nothing special and yet had great powers.” It had 'great powers' because it was something that could be exchanged for money and a way to lead people out of a bad situation. On Christmas Eve it had saved the two men who entered the shop from doing something they might later have been sorry for.
7 Ans:No, it is very unlikely that the older man would ever come back to pick up his watch. He had, after all, got a price higher than the watch was worth for. 8.
8 Ans: The unfriendly face of the visitor turned friendly when he got a fifty dollar note for his ordinary watch.