A .
Every day, after school,
Janet comes home and sits down
front of the television.
is a programme that
likes to watch that begins
5 o'clock. It is
a hospital. But today
mother has a visitor.
are sitting in the room
the television is.
is Janet's uncle Bob. "Hello Janet.
was school today? Your uncle is
to visit us."
B .
Billy is American.
He is a teacher
works in a big
in New York. But Billy is not
New York.
father and mother live
a small town a long
away from there. Billy
not see his parents
often, but every year,
Christmas, he takes the train
the town where his
live and stays with them
a week. Then he
also see his little sister, Cathy,
still lives
her mother and father.
C .
Jane and Linda are
having lunch in a restaurant. "I'm going to
some soup," says Linda, "
then fish. Are you
to have fish
Jane?" "No. I don't
fish. Sometimes we have
at home, because
daughter likes it, but I never eat it." "Do you
it for her?" "No. My husband usually
the cooking, but I always
the dishes." "What
your daughter do? Does she help you?" "
she isn't too busy. She's
for her exams."
D .
Jack didn't return
in time for lunch. Phoebe waited as
as she could, then she
the children that they
all eat and that she
heat something for
when they arrived. "I expect the
is bad over the moor,
all this snow, she said. "He's
worried about what it would be
ever since we moved in.
account of the baby, I suppose.
honestly! People were having babies
before there were hospitals and cars
get them there." "but its not
ages," Mary said. "I'm
the snow will have gone by
." "End of January?" Phoebe said,
a smile. "It could be even
than this."
E .
When Soames had met
Irene a few years before, he had had a great desire to make
her his wife. At
time, Irene had been
with her father, an
poor man. Soames did his
to make Irene love him. He
her many presents and
her to marry him, time after
. While her father was
, Irene was strong
to refuse Soames. But
her father's death, Irene was
quite alone. Soames continued to see her
he could and at
she agreed to marry him. She did not
him, but everyone
it was a good marriage.
F .
A month later I came
out of the special hospital where a
of thirty doctors and nurses had
after me. Penny had had
more doctors than I had because her
was worse than
, but Ogylvie had brought the
doctors from the
States and they had succeeded in saving Penny's
. Dr Starkie was the man in
. "If Penny had been left for
one more day without receiving
medical attention, she would almost
be dead
," he said. "You were
really very lucky."
G .
Helen Garfield was
sitting at a table over in the corner. I walked
and sat down beside
. I asked the waiter for a
of coffee. He brought it. I
the coffee without saying
. Then I put the cup
and looked at the beautiful
sitting beside me. "Miss Garfield," I said, "I
you are a liar. I don't think you've
once told me the
." The blonde girl's
slowly became red. She looked
at me angrily. "Mr Samuel," she said. "I'm
you a lot of money to
for me. I asked
to find my sister. I didn't ask you to
me a liar."
H .
Just then there was
a lot of noise outside. The Marshal
to the door to
what was going on. A driver had
his van in the narrow
. He was taking
a lot of large boxes and
them in the road, before he
them into a shop. But no
cars could get past and
all the traffic had stopped.
were shouting impatiently
already a crowd had
. A traffic policeman arrived and
to make the driver
his van and the
. The driver
with him excitedly.
I .
I had been expecting
something so different that what she was saying didn't seem
to make any
. "And then I had to
your father's debts," she said. "When
left the island I left with
three hundred pounds in my pocket and
of that I paid your
to England. I fitted you
to go to school. You didn't have a garment that was
for the winter. A
new outfit - everything - had to be
and I bore your
for a term. And when I wrote and
your uncle to help to
you at school for a year because you
to have some
of an education, he said he couldn't
it."
J .
I had no desire
to meet Miss Sharp, the junior
mistress. I sometimes watched her cycling
the village street after school was
for the day.
in tweeds, she cycled determinedly, looking neither to the left
nor to the right. She
with awe. She, the village
, was to my young mind just
below God, and I had no wish to
Him. Today was Friday and I
a sigh of relief at the
of another two whole days
my ordeal commenced. Two days to me was a long, long
.