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Assignment to Chapter 24: On the Track of the
Caymans

1. Find answers to the following questions.
1. Who is waiting in the car for Frankie?
2. What does Bobby think of Moira not being home?
3. What does Frankie see at the Caymans house?
4. How does she plan to get in?
5. Frankie visits Messrs. Gordon & Porter of Praed Street. What does
she tell them?
6. What does Frankie see at 17 St. Leonard’s Gardens?
7. Is Frankie disappointed, why?
8. What does she do next?
9. Who is John Savage? Why is he important?
10. Why does Frankie want to read the will?
11. Who does Frankie visit?
12. Why does Mr. Spragge comment “very extraordinary indeed”?

2. Pay attention to the following notes to understand the text better.
 Demeanour (p. 110): outward manner; behaviour towards others
 Heavy heart (p. 111): melancholy, depressed
 Forlorn (p. 112): bereft, forsaken, without hope, desolate
 Mendacious (p. 113): characterized by deception, dishonest
 Omniscient self (p. 116): infinite awareness, knowledge

3. Make sure to know the following items:
a vexation, sympathetic, an unappetizing house, a deference, a
blackmail, a hypnotic power.

4. Find the English equivalents. Use them in your own sentences or in their
context:
вагатися, змія, брехливо, нейтралізувати, горище, відганяти
думки.