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A QUESTION OF TRUST

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Q1) What does Horace Danby like to collect?

Ans) Horace Danby likes to collect old, expensive and rare books.

Q2) Why does he steal every year?

Ans) He used to steal every year in a very systematic and planned manner. He
used to steal enough to last him for 12 months and so that he could buy the
rare and expensive books that he used to like through a secret agent.

Q3) Who is speaking to Horace Danby?

Ans) There was a woman standing in the doorway who was speaking to
Horace Danby. She was a young, beautiful lady and was dressed in red colour.
She was pretending to be one of the family members.

Q4) Who is the real culprit in the story?

Ans) The real culprit in the story is the woman who pretended to be a family
member of the family living at the Grange. She cleverly acted as a family
member and made Horace believe that she wanted him to open the safe just
because she had forgotten the pass code. Horace believed her and opened the
safe and gave her all the jewels that were inside the safe and later, she took
away all the jewels.

Q5) Did you begin to suspect, before the end of the story, that the lady was
not the person Horace Danby took her to be? If so, at what point did you
realise this, and how?

Ans) Yes, one does begin to suspect that the woman is not who she claims to
be. She was unusually calm on seeing Horace near the locker. Then she doesn't
even call the police and also asks him to open the locker for her even if it
means breaking it open as she had forgotten the code of the safe. It is very
unusual that someone forgets the pass code to their own locker.

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