Question

“Have you ****...” she began, and then, seeing they were curiously quiet, went on more slowly, “seen anyone lurking around the verandah?”

(i) What do you think Rukku Manni really wanted to ask?

(ii) Why did she change her question?

(iii) What did she think had happened?

Answer 1

(i) Rukku Manni actually wanted to ask the **** if they had seen the music master'* slippers.

(ii) She changed her question because **** were curiously quiet and she suspected that **** must have done something mischievous with chappals.

(iii) When she saw the expression of absolute quietness ,she thought that the **** must have given the music-master’* chappals to that old beggar .