Question

This romantic life in Kashmir was drawing to its end after three glorious months. Miss

Joan was leaving a week earlier than Mrs. Rhodes, and about two days before she left. I

took her alone to the hotel for dinner. We walked to the hotel in perfect silence, a silence

so heavy that I could hardly breathe. The hotel seemed to be far away and yet not far

enough. That night, as I served her at table the temptation to touch her was overpowering,

and I had almost forgotten myself when I dropped her coffee cup, which made me pull

myself together and realize my position and my caste. On the way home there was a

bridge over the canal to be crossed. She stopped on the bridge without a word, so I

stopped beside her looking on to the calm water of the canal shining between the gigantic

chenar trees. In the distance a gramophone was playing and the music floated over the

water. We stood for a long time without saying a word to each other. I think the parting

was disturbing her. There was something which she could not have explained and which

she was trying to express. It might have been just a fancy of her own, or it may have been

the subconscious knowledge of the secret, consuming passion of her attendant that was

affecting her on this calm and beautiful night as we tarried on the bridge. It seemed to me

that we stood there for ages, as if neither of us dare break the magic spell of night and

music. Our houseboat was only a few yards from the bridge, and the Goodnight was the

only word that passed between us as we parted - everything then went into the darkness.

The Mail lorry came up to the bridge to take her away from the romantic city of Srinagar

and away from me. -After she had taken her seat I put a woollen rug over her knees to

keep her warm on the journey, and she handed me a ten-rupee note as a parting gift and

sweetly said Good-bye. I watched her wave her hand till the lorry was out of sight. Then I

realized what I had lost, and lost for ever.


1. What was the matter with the attendant as he walked with Miss Joan to the hotel?

2. Why did they not talk to each other?

3. What happened that night when the waiter was serving the table?

4. Why does the author call Srinagar a romantic city?

5. Which word in the above passage is the opposite of tiny?

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Answer 1

Answer:

1

Explanation:

What was the matter with the attendant as he walked with Miss Joan to the hotel?