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LANGUAGE FOCUS

Find these expressions in the story and explain what they mean.

1.a mistress of cold praise

2.to worship smth./smb.

3.to be dismayed

4.to be well off

5.to entrust smb. to smb.

6.her life hangs on a thread

7.inconsolable

8.to distract one’s mind

9.to survive the strain

10.to sacrifice smb. for smb./smth.

11.to carry out a bluff

12.to be as good as one’s word

ACTIVITIES

1.The story is told mostly from the author’s viewpoint, and we are given only a few insights into Louise’s thoughts. During the conversation about her husbands’ death Louise doesn’t object to her interlocutor, but gives a sad smile as if she were having an internal debate with herself. Imagine that you are Louise and express your thoughts as you talk to the author.

2.How do you think Louise viewed the author? Imagine that she kept a diary and write two short entries for it: one for the day of his remark: “I sometimes think that you’re quite strong enough to do the things you want to”, and the other for the day of their talk about Iris’s marriage.

3.Both husbands worshipped Louise, but “George Hobhouse had not the strength of Louise’s first husband and he had to brace himself now and then with a drink for his day’s work as Louise’s second husband”. Write down his thoughts about this “job”.

4.How do you interpret the end of the story? (On the wedding-day, at ten o’clock in the morning, Louise, that devilish woman, had one of her heart attacks – and died. She died gently forgiving Iris for having killed her). Do you think Iris would be blaming herself till the end of her life? Write a paragraph as a postscript to the story, describing the author’s emotional state during the next month or two.

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