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6. to diminish 20. to vanish
7. obsequies 21. to flutter
8. to be past all counting 22. poignancy
9. to be drawn deep into domesticity 23. immaculate
10. to exorcise 24. cushion
11. to make a resolution 25. esoteric
12. alumni 26. treachery
13. to be out of order 27. to get through the
preliminaries

2.Supply antonyms and synonyms to the following.
Precious, distort, virtue, shortcoming, respectfully, revolt, disconcerting,
fearfully, indiscretion, supercilious, solitude, responsively, impatiently,
gentleness, immaculate, stiffly, preoccupied, stunt.

3.Answer the questions.
1. Did Anson blame himself for Sloane’s death? Why?
2. What did Anson’s family do after Mrs. Hunter’s death?
3. What change had taken place in Anson himself?
4. What was he most concerned about?
5. Why did Anson’s friends’ attitude change to him?
6. Why did the fact about his friends’ having gone to the country cut at
him?
7. What was intolerable to Anson?
8. What feelings did Anson’s encounter with Paula evoke?
9. What did Paula tell about her life?
10. What did Paula accuse him of?

4.Which sentences are true?
1. Anson blamed himself for Cary Sloane’s death.
2. Just before Christmas Mrs. Hunter retired to a select Episcopal
heaven.
3. They decided that the house wouldn’t go into the market in the fall.
4. At twenty nine Anson’s chief concern was his loneliness.
5. Before his thirtieth birthday the last of his early and intimate friends
got married.
6. Anson liked to spend his leisure hours in Hot Springs.
7. When Anson met Paula he realized that the memory of their love
hadn’t lost poignancy to her.