Question

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

(i) What do you think Rukka 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 children if they had seen the music master’s slippers.

(ii) She changed her question seeing that they were curiously quiet. She suspected that they had something to do with the absence of the slippers.

(iii) She probably thought that the children had purposely hidden the music master’s slippers, or done something with it.