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4.Which sentences are true?
1. At 27 Anson was stout with a manner older than his years.
2. Uncle Robert and his wife Edna had been Anson’s great friends.
3. Dolly was the daughter of a lawyer who had married into a society.
4. Dolly was slackly and indiscreetly wild.
5. Mrs. Karger didn’t believe that Anson could be reliable.
6. Anson was jealous – Dolly meant everything to him.
7. The estate in Port Washington belonged to Anson’s cousin.
8. After dinner they danced at the Linx Club.
9. Anson believed in God.

5.Put the events in the chronological order.
1. Mrs. Karger allowed Dolly to go with Anson to distant country
clubs.
2. Dolly caught sight of Paula’s picture.
3. Uncle Robert slipped out of Anson’s life.
4. Anson was taken into the firm.
5. Anson took up the commanding position in Dolly’s heart.
6. Anson’s father died.

6. Reproduce the situations in which the following sentences are used.
1. Life has made a cynic of me.
2. … This world was composed of varying elements.
3. Like most compromises, it had neither force nor vitality but only a
timorous despair.
4. The frame gleamed faintly with thrice-reflected moonlight.

7.Find evidence to prove that
1. Anson had a manner older than his years.
2. Anson had an instinctive and rather charitable knowledge of the
weaknesses of men and women.
3. Anson and Uncle Robert had been very friendly.
4. Odd things happened to Anson and he accepted them humorously.
5. Dolly and Paula were quite different.
6. Dolly understood that it was going to be difficult to have a serious
affair with Anson.