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6. What did they decide to do?
7. What happened to Cary Sloane?

4.Which sentences are true?
1. Dolly’s marriage as well as Paula’s one depressed him very much.
2. Anson was glad that he was made a partner in the firm.
3. Now Anson’s responsibilities increased and he couldn’t devote his
time to helping his friends.
4. Anson appreciated his freedom most of all.
5. Uncle Robert’s marriage went astray and that made him very
unhappy.
6. Anson wasn’t sure he would be able to handle Edna’s affair and
decided not to interfere.
7. Edna knew Anson’s hostility to her and was prepared for his direct
approach to the matter.
8. Anson wanted to break up Edna’s friendship with Sloane because he
cared too much for Edna’s reputation.

5.Put the events in the chronological order.
1. Edna carried on an open intrigue with Cary Sloane.
2. Anson gave them his terms.
3. Dolly married.
4. Anson was made a partner in the firm.
5. Cary Sloane’s body was found on the lower shelf of a pillar of
Queensboro Bridge.
6. Anson, Edna and Sloane dined at a small French restaurant.
7. Sloane walked suddenly off down the street and Anson tapped a
dozing taxi-driver on the arm.
8. Anson traced down the sources of the scandal so that there should be
no possibility of mistake.
9. A life-insurance company refused to issue Anson a policy.
10. Paula got divorced.

6. Reproduce the situations in which the following sentences are used.
1. What had been done at first through pride and superiority had
become a habit and a passion.
2. He came to take a vicarious pleasure in happy marriages.
3. When Uncle Robert married her she didn’t have a penny.
4. Anson gave them his terms.