Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
“Sure, yes—right away! Change of air will do you good. I’ll join you presently!” If only she would go till Helen could depart! I’d have the ***** of a time explaining afterward, of course, but anything would be better than to have Lavinia see a ghost. Why, that sensitive little woman couldn’t bear to have a mouse say boo at her— and what would she say to a ghost in her own living-room?
(a) What does the narrator want his wife to do and why?
(b) How will it help him?
(c) Find a word in the passage similar in meaning: ‘sounds of dislike’.
