Question

Why does speaker feeling querulous

Answer 1

As the narrator enters Frome's kitchen, we are told that "the querulous drone ceased". The narrator sees two women in the kitchen, but we don't know who had spoken at the beginning of the scene ("of the two women sitting there I could not tell which had been the speaker", p. 98). Yet, as the scene goes on, the narrator recognizes that the voice was that of the woman sitting "huddled in the armchair near the stove"...