II. Do the exercises. Use the necessary tenses.

1. The story is about two people. They were not young, they (to love) each other, they (to love) each other for years, but couldn’t tell each other about it.

2. Ray Buffin (to like) to receive mail. He (to live) in that small town of Stillwater his whole life, and he (to have) no living relatives or friends in other towns to correspond with and he never (to get) letters.

3. But many years before he (to write) a letter. That was a letter to a young girl in town whom he (to love) and (to want) to marry, but he (not to receive) an answer.

4. There were two young men in town, Guy and Ralph, who (to think) always up some jokes to play on people. They (to decide) that they (to send) Ray a letter signed with a fictitious name. They (to want) Gracie to do it. Gracie (to be) a plump, elderly girl. She (to work) for the telephone company since she (to graduate) from high school. She (to live) alone all her life, as she (to work) at night and (to sleep) during the day and there (to be) little opportunity for her to meet somebody who (to marry) her.

5. When Guy and Ralph (to tell) her about their plan, she (to say) she (to have) nothing to do with their scheme. She (to think) about Ray Buffin. She (to remember) that once she (to get) a letter from Ray in which he (to ask) her to marry him. She … just (to graduate) from high school and … just (to start) to work and (not to think) of marrying any man and she (to ignore) the letter and (not to answer) it.

6. Sid Stoney hardly (to begin) to sort the mail when Ray (to see) a letter in his box. He (not to believe) his eyes. He (to read) the letter and before anybody could say a word he (to run) out of the post-office. As soon as they (to realize) what (to happen) Guy and Ralph (to run) after him.

7. Ray (to hurry) to the telephone exchange. Usually Gracie (to come) there at 6 o’clock in the evening, but that time she (to be) there since 4 o’clock. When Guy and Ralph (to run) inside they (to see) Ray and Gracie who (to smile) happily at each other.

III. Say what would have happened if:

… Ray had had relatives

… Ray had not hoped to get a letter one day

… Ray had been sociable

… Gracie had answered Ray’s letter many years before

… Gracie hadn’t been so young when Ray wrote that he wanted to marry her

…Guy and Ralph had not been always thinking up some jokes to play on people

… Gracie had not felt ashamed that she had not written to Ray many years before

… Gracie had signed the letter with a fictitious name

… Gracie had not been in the telephone exchange that time

… if Ralph and Guy had chosen another girl to write a letter to Ray

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