Read the passage given below and answer the questions (a), (b) and (c) that follow:
I could hear the squeaking that heralded the evening arrival of the bats. I listened to the noises of
the approaching night. Every day my hearing grew sharper. I was learning to filter out whatever I
did not want to listen to and giving no sign that I could hear everything that went on in the house.
I could not sleep, the air was heavy and still, the moon hidden behind thick banks of cloud, Lord
Otorio was sound asleep. I did not want to leave the house, I’d come to love so much, but
I seemed to be bringing nothing but trouble to it, Perhaps it would be better for everyone if I just
vanished in the night.
Now I heard the hiss of hot water as the bath was prepared, the clatter of dishes from the kitchen,
the sliding sigh of the cook’s knife, the dog barking two streets away, and the sound of feet on the
wooden bridges, on the canal, I knew the sounds of the house, day and night in
the sunshine and under the rain. This evening I realized I was always listening for something more,
I was waiting too. For what?
I began to wonder if I could get out of the house without setting the dogs barking and arousing the
guards. I started consciously listening for the dogs. Usually I heard them bark on and off
throughout the night, but I’d learn to distinguish their bark and to ignore them. I set my ears for
them but heard nothing. Then I started listening for the guards, the sound of a foot on stone or a
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