I.Offence

1)

- Henry and March are working together bringing in logs.

- Banford has gone to the trouble to make scones.

- March's face is pale strained and vague.

- Banford speaks fretfully

2)

a. whatever

b. never

c. ages

d. why

e. aren't

f. nettled

g. authority

h. rude

i. go along

j. stick

3)

a.

The way he dresses: he's in shirt-sleeves as if he were at home.

The way he eats: he bends over too much, with his chin near the plate.

The look on his face: looks ruddy and has a strange assurance and a wide-eyed bright

b. no because in my opinion he respects Banford.

c. Yes I do but she doesn't behave well.

d. She chews her food (including the specially-made scones) as if she did not know she was eating at all.

4)

She doesn't like:

- to meet Henry's clear eyes.

- the strange glow.

- his cheeks with fine hair.

- his ruddy skin.

- the quality of his phisical presence generally (too hot).

II.Neurosis

2.a)

a. captain Mayne Reid

b. adventure

c. strenuous

d. himself

e. knees

f. sideways

g. shirt - sleeves

h. khaki - coloured trousers;

i. lumber - camp

j. khaki

k. red

3.a)

Floor covering: a Turkey rug

colours: red surrounded by dark stain

fire - place: green - tiles

the most prominent piece of furniture: an open piano

narrator's comments: It has the latest dance music, Banford plays quite well

decoration on the walls: hand painted swans and water lies done by March.

Fire: logs nicely burn in the gate

Doors: all shut

Outside: there's a strong wind

3.b) Banford is very perfect, that's why Henry is out of place here.

4)

Activity: crochets the white cotton very slowly.

mouth: pursed in a odd way.

hair: straying in whips.

bearing: as if herself is miles away

hands: red but well-shaped

hears: so tenderly

looks at: Henry - involuntarily thinking she is sewing the fox

5.a)

- She's trying to read

- sitting between the other two she feels nervous

- she keeps moving; glancing secretly at the other two

- irritated by March's behaviour and by her silence

- her eyes are bad

- she has a queer, almost malignant

- she speaks to March sarcastically

- she tells Henry about how she gets so bored on the farm in winter; and then mockingly refers to his "hoping time"

- He refers to her thin frail hair with its threads of grey

- she bites her fingers

- uses her favourite word "whatever" again and again

- " I Feel I can't stand another thing! Did you mean Henry?"

- She wails " Oh dear, my nerves are all gone"

- She goes to bed early, and fretfully asks March to come to bed early too

6)

No. Animated and energetic. It goes back for a moment to the chatty, more friendly tone of their first meeting.

7)

- He laughs quickly

- He wrinkles his nose like a puppy

- His eyes shining

- He speaks gravelly

- his eyes turned at March's fine skin and nose, and the curious lifted arch of her brows, and the wideness of her eyes

8) Yes, because she's worried about Henry

9)

a. Only the first parts of lines 1 and 3:

"My nerves are bad to-night."

"What are you thinking of?"

b. All of the rest is far too extreme for Banford.

III. I Thought you Were The Fox

1)

a. That she thought he was the fox.

b. Half-ironic and self conscious - she turns aside her head again and lets one foot stray loose. She insists she wasn't afraid of the fox

c. He laughs in his usual way

2)

a. No, because Jill will be waiting.

b. She stays, standing with "one foot loose and her face turned aside, just outside the circle of life"

3)

a. won't

b. even

c. flatly

d. I'm like the fox

e. young

f. light low

g. dimmer

h. doesn't move

i. moment

j. silently

k. turns

l. neck

m. winces

n. again

o. draws

p. quickly

q. burns

r. intolerably

s. Jill

IV. Henry Tells Banford about The Proposal

1)

He looks round the place and attends to the stock. He thinks one could live there easily enough.

3)

Yes; he addresses Jill politely as Miss Banford, which was considered correct at that time. And he seems to want to share his good news with her, "smiling like one who has a secret."

4)

It seems to me like a match between Banford and Henry.

5)

eyes: tired, slightly.

Generally: frail little thing

Hair: bobbed

Face: worn

Fingers: delicate

6) She was in my opinion worried of Banford.

7.a)

out of her delicate fingers

with blank, redden eyes

like a bird that has been shot

helpless

as if the sight of the food

she cries made her sick

as if he was some creature in a museum

7.b)

All are descriptive.

8)

a. When he says "It's quite right": bright and expressionless.

b. When he asks why Banford shouldn't believe his good news: impertinent

9) Because I don't like Banford's behaviour. She has to be happy for them.

10)

"she can never be such a fool."

"She can't lose her self-respect to such an extent."

"If she hasn't lost it already."

"Probably you don't. I shouldn't expect you would."

"My word, she doesn't know what she's letting herself in for."

"More than it has to do with you, probably."

"No, you wouldn't."

13)

Henry:

Outwardly: the devil still in his face

Actions: goes out with the gun and comes back in the evening with a rabbit and a pigeon

Inwardly: in a devil of a temper feeling he had been insultated.

Outwardly: his eyes go almost black with rage. His face looks sulkier. He never forgets his polite intonation.

Banford:

Outwardly: has been crying. Manner more remote and supercilious when Henry speaks, she turns her head.

V. Henry Listens to What They Say About Him In Private

5.a)

He is aiming at her death within a month. It's his game to see her in churchyard.

He's only counting on what he can get out of  March.

He thinks he'll live on both. And get Bailey Farm out of them.

He'll make a fool of march and leave her stranded.

He wants to be master of both.

He will run off as if he would never know you.

5.b)

I don't think so.

6)

a. "I feel quite sick with the smell of his clothes."

b. "It [trying to do a kind action] always flies back in your

face like a boomerang." ; "We ought never to have lowered ourselves."

c. "He's just a good-for-nothing, who doesn't want to work." ; "a hateful, red-faces boy, a beastly labourer." ; "awful little beast." ; "I'd no more trust him than I'd trust a cat not to steal."

d. "But you'll find out, if you see much of him. Oh, Nellie, I can't bear to think of it."

8)

a. Henry's never going to set foot on the farm while she lives.

b. "We'll tell he can't come here."

c. "I don't think he's as bad as all that."

VI. Henry Shoots The Fox

1)

Eyes:          round and wide

Ears:          jumping of his head

Body:          frozen

Head:          the top was coming off

Mind:           he could not sleep

Actions:        he went out with the gun

3)

The narrator compares him with cats because he seems to be able to see thought the darkness with dilated eyes.

4)

a. was constricted even in the dark.

b. the fox.

c. sniffing round.

d. loudly-barking, thick-voiced, innumerable little houses.

8)

- At first: sliding.

- Movements: creeping; a snake. - sniffing; prowl under the edge of the barn. - sliding up the incline; his nose to the boards. - his paws in death.

VII. March's Second Dream

1)

Banford is dead

March is:

-  snobbing her earth out

-  feeling she had to put Banford into her coffins, she is in againg

- despair while looking for something to cover up the dead at the poor darling

- covering Jill with a fox-skin

- crying and crying till the morning

VIII. The Dead Fox

1)

The Dead Fox

- Gender: dog-fox

- Age: in its prime

- Fur: handsome, thick, winter coat

- Colour: lovely golden-red, with grey as it passed to the belly, all white belly

- Tail: great full brush with delicate black and grey and pure white tip

- Banford's Reaction: poor brute! If it wasn't such a thieving wretch, you'd feel sorry for it

- March's Reaction

                   speech: said nothing

                  foot: trailing aside

                   hip: one hip out

                   face: pale

eyes: big and black

thoughts: white and soft as snow his belly; wonderful his black-glinted brush; full and frictional, sharp, thick, splendid

actions: she passes her hands down it and she takes its head in her hands

Banford's Reactions to Henry

- walks away when he comes

Henry's Reaction to March

- as always: Henry "could make nothing of her"

- She seems partly: shy and virgin

- and partly: grim, matter of fact, shrewish

- her words so different from: the look of her eyes

Henry

- inside: angry

- outside: polite and affable; He leaves march alone without say anything about his intention

IX. I'm Not Used to That Way

1)

a. She wouldn't have Henry in the sitting-room

b. Banford writes letters, March sews a dress, Henry mends some gadgets.

c.  She refers to the wedding as a "business" and she gives her opinion about their marriage and travel's plans.

2)

Yes, she is because if she knows when March is going to leave, she will tell to another partner to come in.

3)

a. She accepts the idea even if she "laughs sardonically".

b. Henry's main concern is to know if March is going to marry him before he'll move to Canada as a soldier.

c. No, she doesn't because she would escape from this situation.