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ACT III – SCENE 1

1. Where does the scene take place?

Ans : In a room of the palace of Duke Frederick.

2. Name the characters who enter this scene.

Ans: Duke Frederick, Oliver, Lords and Attendants.

3. What does the Duke mean by “Not seen him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be”?

Ans: The Duke means to say that he is not prepared to believe Oliver’s statement that he has not

seen his brother, Orlando, since the wrestling match.

4. Why is Duke Frederick looking for Orlando?

Ans: When Duke learns of the flight of his daughter, Celia and his niece, Rosalind, he at once

begins an inquiry to find out who has conspired with them and helped them. On learning from

Celia’s maid, that she had over heard them discussing the merits of Orlando and that she suspects

him to be in their company, he immediately orders his men to look for Orlando.

5. Explain: But were I not the better part made mercy….. thou present.

Ans: Duke tells Oliver that if he had not been so kind and merciful by nature, he would have

avenged himself on Oliver as he was the one present rather than postpone it for one who was absent

(Orlando).

6. Explain: ‘Seek him with candle”

Ans: The Duke tells Oliver to search for his brother wherever he may be. He must search for him

every diligently just as he would search with a candle for something missing in the dark.

7. What does Duke order Oliver to do?

Ans: To search for Orlando and bring him to the Duke within twelve months, dead or alive. If he

fails to do so he will not be allowed to live within his dukedom.

8. How will Oliver be punished by the duke?

Ans: In the meantime, all his land and property will be confiscated by the duke till his brother can

prove his innocence and remove the doubts the Duke had regarding Oliver. It was believed by the

duke that Oliver had encouraged Orlando to escape.

9. What does Oliver declare to convince the duke of his innocence?

Ans: Oliver now declares that he had hated his brother all his life.

10.How does the duke react? What does he order his officers to do?

Ans: The duke is stunned. He observes that if he does not love his brother, he is all the more

villainous. He orders his attendants to throw him out of his house. He orders his officers who deal

with confiscation of property to go and seize his house and properties. He tells them to do this

quickly and to expel Oliver from his dukedom.

11.What does this scene reveal about the duke?

Ans: duke is a tyrant yet treats Oliver leniently compared to the circumstances of the situation.

It is ironic that he reprimands Oliver for hating his brother when he himself had usurped his own

brother’s dukedom and rights.

His greed for other man’s property is seen when he confiscated Oliver’s land and property.

SCENE -2

1. Where does the scene take place?

Ans: In the Forest of Arden.

2. Who enters the scene? What is he doing?

Ans: Orlando enters the scene. He enters with a paper containing love poem to Rosalind which

he is reciting and then he hangs it on a tree.

3. How does he address the moon?

Ans: Orlando calls the moon as ‘thrice-crowned queen of night’. In Greek and Roman

mythology Moon had three fold duty . As the moon in the sky she was the queen of Heaven

called Luna, as the queen of the underworld she is called Prosperina, and as the goddess of

chastity and hunting she was called Diana.

4. Explain ‘chaste eye’ and ‘pale sphere’

Ans: Diana was the virgin goddess; Orlando refers to her eyes as being chaste or pure.

Pale sphere refers to the pale light of the moon.

5. What does Orland ask the queen of night to do/

Ans: He asks the queen to look down with her pure eyes from her place in the sky to see the

pure virgin Rosalind whose love completely controls his life.

6. Expalin: ‘thy huntress’ name.

Ans: Diana, the goddess of hunting, was attended by a band of huntresses vowed to maidenhood

as Rosalind was unwedded and virgin, Orlando compares her to one of these attendants by

calling her Diana’s huntress.

7. What does Orlando compare the trees to? What does he hope to achieve from this?

Ans: He compares the trees to books. He will use them to voice his love for Rosalind by

inscribing his verses on their barks.

He hopes that every eye of everyone who roams the forest will read about Rosalind’s noble

qualities and her engraved name will prove to them that she is supreme.

8. Explain: ‘ the fair, the chaste and the unexpressive she’

Ans: Orlando carves on every tree the praises of Rosalind – ‘ the beautiful, the pure and

inexpressible woman’

Rosalind is called unexpressive because she is perfect in every way and in no language are there

words good enough to describe the beautiful and virtuous Rosalind.

9. Who enters the scene now?

Ans: Corin and Touchstone .

10.How does touchstone reply to Corin’s question about how he likes the shepherd’s life?

Ans: Touchstone says that a shepherd’s life in itself, without making any comparison with any

other form of life is very good, but the fact that it is a mere shepherd’s life, it is worthless and

uncomfortable to live.

He likes it as it is a solitary life of retirement but dislikes it as it is a very lonely life.

He likes it because it is in the fields but as it is not in the court it is tedious.

As it a simple and frugal life it suits his appetite but as ti goes much against his stomach/ not

wealthy with much to eat, he dislikes it.

11.What does his reply tell us about him?

Ans: His reply contrasts the court life and the country life.

He wants to impress Corin with the superiority of his intellect over that of Corin. He uses

paradoxical language to bewilder him.

He feels partly regretful and partly happy at having left the court for the country.

It is a contract to Duke Senior’s lofty praise for the idealized life in the forest.

12.What is Corin’s philosophy?

Ans: Corin says that the more ill one becomes, the less comfortable one feels.

If a man does not have money, means and content then he is without three good friends.

He knows that the quality of fire is to burn, rain is to wet, and that rich pasture lands produe

well-fed sheep.

The cause of night is because of the absence of the sun.

If a man has no common sense either natural or acquired, may complain that he is either badly

educated or has not been brought up well, or that he belongs to a very unintelligent family.

13.What does ‘natural philosopher’ and ‘damned’ mean.

Ans: born philosopher or idiotic

Damned means condemned to go to Hell.

14.Explain: ill roasted egg.

Ans: partially cooked egg. Means that Corin has lop-sided (one sided) knowledge because he

has learned it from nature, but not from the culture and manners of the court.

15.What does touchstone say about manners?

Ans: If Corin was never at court, he has never seen or cultivated the etiquette of polite society.

If he does not know what good manners are then he must be having bad manners/wicked

manners.

He knows wickedness is sin, and sin condemns one to Hell.

(he tries to frighten Corin but Corin is not disturbed)

16.What does Corin point out to Touchstone in reply?

Ans: Corin points out to Touchstone that court life and country life ar two different kinds of life

with different standards of conduct and ideas.

Those that are considered good manners at the court may prove ridiculous in the country just as

the behavior of the rustics is laughed at in the court.

At court they greet each other kissing their hands. The same way of greeting each other would

be regarded as very dirty in the country.

17.How does Corin explain this and how is it contradicted by touchstone?

Ans: Corin says that a shepherd’s hands are not fit to be kissed because the shepherds are

constantly handling their sheep/ewes whose skins are always greasy.

Touchstone says that the hands of courtiers sweat, and the grease of a sheep smells as bad as

sweat of human beings.

Corin says that the shepherd’s hands are hard and rough.

Touchstone says that if they are hard and rough the lips can feel them quickly.

Corin says their hands are covered with tar which they apply to the wounds of their sheep, as an

antiseptic while the hands of the courtiers are perfumed with civet.

Touchstone says that the civet is a perfume derived from the secretions of the glands of the civet

cat and so of baser birth than tar/grease/dirt.

18.Explain: ‘thou worms meat, in respect of a good piece of flesh”

Ans: Touchstone tells Corin that he is a rotten carcass only fit to be food for worms as compared

with a good piece of flesh i.e. touchstone.

19.Explain: ‘God make incision in thee! Thou art raw’

Touchstone says the above words meaning that God should give Corin a better understanding by

cutting him, and bleeding him to cure him of the disease of simplicity.

He wishes that God would cut up Corin so that he could be very well cooked as he was raw like

uncooked meat, and needs to be taught good manners.

20. What does Corin say about his simple life?

Ans : Corin says that he is an honest labourer.

He earns what he eats.

wears what he gains by work.

He bears no grudge against any man, nor does he envy anyone.

He rejoices over other men’s prosperity and happiness.

He accepts his share of difficulties cheerfully without complaining.

takes pride in seeing his sheep graze and his lambs suck.

Rosalind and Touchstone:

1. Who entered the scene?

Ans: Rosalind, reading a paper with poems written by Orlando.

2. Explain: ‘From the east to west Ind, no jewel is like Rosalind.’

Ans: The verse are saying that from the East Indies to the West Indies, i.e. through out the

world, no jewel is as precious and beautiful as Rosalind.

3. Explain: ‘all the pictures fairest lined are but black to Rosalind’

Ans: All the pictures that have been most beautifully drawn seem black and ugly when

compared with that of Rosalind.

4. Who is listening to the verse? What are his comments?

Ans: Touchstone, he says that he too can write such verses for eight years continuously,

meals and sleeping time exempted. He says that the rhythm of these verses is so bad that it

reminds him of the jogging rhythm of women on their way to market to sell butter.

5. How does touchstone substantiate his comments?

Ans: He says : if a deer required a mate, let him search for Rosalind.

If a cat will seek another cat, Rosalind will surely do the same.

Those who reap the corn must gather the grain and bind it into sheaves and put it on

the cart. Rosalind also has to be taken away like cut corn on the cart to a husband.

The sweetest nut is covered with the sourest rind and Rosalind can be compared to this

extremely bitter nut, but at heart very loving.

He who will look for the sweetest rose must first encounter the thorns, so it is with

Rosalind, the pain of love being like the thorn that grows with the rose.

CELIA AND ROSALIND

1. Who enters the scene? What is she reading? What do the other three characters do while she

Reads?

Ans: Celia enters, reading a sheet of paper.

The other three characters stand behind a tree and listen.

2. What will some of the verses of Orlando contain?

Ans: Some of the verses will describe how short man’s life on earth is, it is like one span.

Some will relate the broken promises of the most intimate friends.

3. Explain: ‘the quintessence of every sprite Heaven would in little show”

Ans: The pure essential qualities of every kind of womanly grace, God wanted to show in

miniature.- beauty of face, queenly bearing, grace of figure and movement, chastity of

mind.

4. Explain: ‘Helen’s cheek, but not her heart’.

Ans: Helen was the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. She was the most beautiful woman

in Greece. She eloped with Paris, son of Priam, King of Troy, forgetting her husband and

daughter. She was the cause of the Trojan War.

So Nature gave Rosalind Helen’s beauty but not her heart as she was unfaithful to her

husband.

5. Explain: ‘Cleopatra’s majesty’

Ans: Cleopatra was the famous enchanting queen of Egypt, she was famous for her beauty,

learning and cleverness. Her beauty captivated Mark Anthony and led to his downfall.

Orlando means that Rosalind possessed the dignified queenly bearing of Cleopatra.

6. Explain: ‘Atalanta’s better part’

Ans: Atalanta was a princess in Greek mythology who challenged her suitors to run a race

with her. The reward of a man’s victory was her hand in marriage, if defeated death.

Atalanta had lovely symmetry and perfect proportion of form. It is this grace of a perfect

figure that Orlando imagines in his Rosalind.

7. Explain: ‘sad Lucretia’s modesty’

Ans: Lucretia was the virtuous Roman matron who was raped by Sextus, son of the tyrant

Tarquin. She stabbed herself to death. This led to the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome.

Orlando attributes her virtue of purity to his Rosalind.

8. What was decreed (ordered) by the council of Gods?

Ans: The council of Gods decreed that Rosalind should be created by borrowing the best

features of all these famous women so that she might be regarded as the possessor of the

most highly valued traits and that Orlando should remain her humble and devoted admirer

all through life.

9. Explain: ‘O most gentle Jupiter! What tedious……….good people!’

Ans: Rosalind pretends not to know it was one of Orlando’s poems. She remarks that it is a

dull and tiresome sermon of love which the preacher has thrust upon them. Just as the

preacher goes on boring his listeners in the same way the gentle sermonizer of the love

poem has taxed the patience of them all.

10. What question does Celia again ask Rosalind about the verses?

Ans: Whether she heard the verses without wondering how her name came to be carved on

trees, or how poems on her came to be suspended from them.

11.What is Rosalind’s reply?

Ans: Rosalind replies that she had got over the worst of the surprise before Celia came.

Then showing her another poem she had found on the palm-tree she says she was never

before made so much the subject of rhyme since the time of Pythagoras when she was an

Irish rat, an event which is difficult for her to exactly recollect.

12.Who was Pythagoras? What did he teach?

Ans: Greek philosopher in the 6th century B.C. who taught that at death, men’s souls

migrated into other creatures.

13.Explain: ‘Irish rat’

Ans: Rosalind claims that she was an Irish rat during the time of Pythagoras and as an Irish

rat she had been killed by ritual incantation. It was a joke in those days that the Irish

claimed to rid themselves of rats or their enemies in this way.

14.What does Celia say in connection with Rosalind meeting Orlando?

Ans: Celia says that in the normal circumstances, it may not be likely for Rosalind and

Orlando to meet, but sometimes a miracle may happen. She says that earthquakes may

bring together mountains that are not likely to meet. Similarly great difficulties in the way

of meeting of friends may be removed and Rosalind and Orlando may soon meet.

15.Explain: ‘ dost thou think though……….. my disposition?

Ans: Rosalind is eager to know from Celia the author of the verses addressed to her. She

says though she is dressed as a man with doublet and hose, it does not mean that she has

the heart of a man, too. She is a woman with a woman’s curiosity and a woman’s

patience.

16. Explain: ‘One inch of delay more is a South Sea of discovery’.

Ans: Rosalind is curious to know who the author of the verses is. So she tells Celia if she

delays one moment more in answering them would be like embarking (going on board) on a

voyage of discovery in the South Sea.

The South Seas (Pacific Ocean) was just being discovered during Shakespeare time. Long

voyages were being undertaken by adventurous Englishmen.

17.Why does Rosalind wish that Celia could stammer? What metaphor does she use?

Ans: Rosalind wishes that Celia could stammer and pour the concealed name of the

writer out of her mouth as wine comes out of a narrow-mouthed bottle – either too much

at once or none at all. She tells Celia to uncork her mouth so that she can drink the news.

The metaphor of wine being poured from a wine bottle is used.

18.Explain: ‘is he of God’s making?’

Ans: Rosalind wants to know whether the writer of the poem has any accomplishments of

his own or whether he depends on his tailors for the impression he makes.

19.What is Rosalind’s first thought when she learns the truth from Celia that Orlando is

really in the forest?

Ans: the first and foremost thought that comes to Rosalind is how she will get rid of the

dress of a man. she regrets that she cannot meet Orlando as it is not a suitable time for

her. This shows that in spite of her male dress she is a woman in the true sense of the

word.

20.What questions does Rosalind ask Celia now?

Ans: Rosalind asks Celia what Orlando was doing when she saw him,

What did he say,

How he looked,

Where did he go,

Why did he come there,

Did he inquire about her,

Where does he stay,

What were his parting words,

When was she likely to see him again.

21. What is Celia’s reply?

Ans: Celia says that to answer all her questions in one word, she must have as large a

mouth as Gargantua, because the size of a human mouth in modern times is too small to

hold such a word.

22.Who is Gargantua?

Ans: he is a giant described by the 16th century French writer, Rebelais in one of his stories.

This giant had a big mouth so that on one occasion he swallowed five pilgrims together.

23.What is ‘catechism’?

Ans: it is a book containing a series of questions and answers relating to the Bible. It is used

by the Church to impart religious instruction to young boys and girls.

24. Why is Celia referring to a catechism/

Ans: when Rosalind tells Celia to answer her questions in one word, Celia takes ‘one

word’ to imply a separate answer in the form of ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to each of her questions.

She says that answering Rosalind’s’ questions is more difficult task than to answer at

once a whole series of questions in a catechism book where answers follow questions

one after the other.

25.What is Celia’s reply to the inquires about Orlando?

Ans: Celia replies that it is easy to count the dust particles (atomies) in a sunbeam than to

answer the questions of a lover. As she cannot satisfy Rosalind by answering all her

questions, she will give some food for her thoughts by answering one of her questions.

Then she could enjoy it be paying careful attention, and draw her conclusions regarding the

other pieces of information she wanted.

26.What does she tell about Orlando?

Ans: she tells that she found Orlando under a tree as if he were a fallen acorn.

He was stretched along like a wounded knight.

He was dressed as a hunter, equipped with weapons of a hunter.

Orlando and Jaques:

1. What cynical remark does Jaques make about Orlando’s ‘pretty answers’?

Jaques cynically remarks that Orlando’s answers cannot be his own. He must have learnt

them from the mottos inscribed on the rings. He must have come in close contact with

the wives of goldsmiths and then he must have learnt by heart the mottos engraved on

their rings.

2. How does Orlando pay back Jaques in his own coin?

Ans: Orlando says that his replies are not pretty but very trite (stale) and common. They

are just as trite as the mottos (slogans) found on painted cloth which is also the source

for Jaques’ trite questions. He means that Jaques has learnt his questions while wasting

time in inns.

Orlando and Rosalind:

1. What does Rosalind say aside to Celia? Which word is punned on?

Ans: Rosalind takes celia aside and tells her that she will speak to Orlando like an disrespectful man-

servant and under the guise she will trick him and cause amusement.

The word ‘knave’ is punned on. So the words ‘play the knave with him’ means she will trick

him by pretending to be a boy.

2. Why does Rosalind think there is no lover in the forest? What do her words reveal?

Ans: Rosalind thinks there is no true lover in the forest because a lover who sighs every minute

and groans every hour can accurately count the slow passage of the minutes and hours like the

hands of a clock and should be able to tell the time without a clock.

3. How does time move at different paces and with different people?

According to Rosalind time trots(uncomfortable pace) for a young girl who is engaged to be

married. Even if the duration of the interval between the engagement and the day of her

marriage is seven nights it appears as if it is seven years.

Time ambles (goes leisurely) for the priest who is ignorant of Latin and for the rich man who

does not suffer from gout. The priest sleeps easily because he cannot study due to his

ignorance of Latin. So he sleeps soundly as he is free from the load of learning. Similarly the

rich man lives happily because he is free from any type of pain. He does not suffer from

poverty either, so he sleeps peacefully at night. So, according to Rosalind, time ambles with

these men.

Time gallops or runs at great speed with a thief who is waiting for his execution. Though he

walks as slowly as possible he seems to arrive at the gallows too soon.

Time stands still with lawyers on vacation. They sleep during vacation, when the courts are

closed between terms or sessions. As they are not busy, they feel that time has come to a

standstill.

4. What is her reply when Orlando asks her if she was a native of that place?

Ans: She says that she lives on the outskirts of the forest with the shepherdess, his sister and

that she is an inhabitant of the forest, as much as the rabbit which lives where it is born.

5. What is Rosalind’s reply regarding her accent?

Ans: Rosalind says that many people have complimented her in this connection. She says that

an old religious minded uncle of hers, who was a courtier in his youth , being brought up in the

city, taught her how to speak. He knew the art of courtship for in city, he fell in love. She had

heard him rail against weakness of women. She thanked God she was not a woman to be

affected with all the follies of love, with which he often charged the whole race of women.

6. What does she say about any of the main follies which her uncle brought against women?

Ans: She says that no offence was the main one. They were all of equal magnitude and

resembled one another as half-pence do. Each fault seemed the most glaring till another one

equally bad came into view.

7. What are the symptoms of a true lover, according to Rosalind?

Ans: According to Rosalind a true love should possess these symptoms-

A sunken cheek, dull eyes with dark circles around it, unwillingness to converse with anyone

by being withdrawn, untrimmed beard, his stocking not firmly tied, the hat without a band to it,

sleeve unbuttoned, shoe string untied, and everything about the lover should outwardly betray

his utter misery.

8. What does Rosalind compare love to? How should love sickness be treated?

Ans: Rosalind compares love to madness. Lovers should be treated as if they were insane.

They should be confined to a dark room and whipped (as madmen were said to be possessed

by the devil and could be cured by whipping out the devil). But this is not happening because

the madness is so common that even the man who should whip them is himself in love. She

prefers to cure a love sick man by counseling.

9. How did Rosalind claim to have cured a young man in love?

Ans: Rosalind made a young man who had been in love to imagine that she (Ganymede) was

his mistress and instructed him to woo her daily. At such times, she would pretend to be

moody and changeable like the moon i.e. quick changes of temperament, full of longing and

liking – like a girl.

She would pretend to be proud, full of strange fancies, tricks like an ape, superficial, fickle, full

of tears, full of smiles, exhibiting every passion and humour, yet not permanent in one mood as

boys and women are generally creatures of this nature.

One moment she would like him, then scorn him, welcome his attentions courteously then

refuse him, shed tears for him the next moment spit at him, so much so that she drove him

from the affectionate lover to a real madman that he left the society of men and shut himself in

a quiet corner living the life of a monk.

10.How does she propose to cure Orlando of his love sickness?

Ans: She says that he has to call Ganymede by the name of Rosalind and come to her cottage

every day to woo her.

SCENE - 3

1. With whom does Touchstone enter the scene, who is she and where are they?

Ans: With Audrey, a country girl, a shepherdess he had met in the forest, another part of the

forest of Arden.

2. Who follows them?

Ans: Jaques without being seen by them.

3. Explain: ‘I am here with thee and thy goats as the most capricious poet, honest Ovid, was

among the Goths’

Ans: Touchstone compares his present state of tending Audrey’s goats with that of Ovid, a

Roman poet who was banished for unknown cause and made to live among the Goths

(barbarians).

The Goths were barbarians and could not understand Ovid and so could not honour him just

as Touchstone is out of place with Audrey and her goats.

4. Explain: ‘O knowledge ill - inhabited, worse than Jove in a thatched house’

Ans: When Jaques overhears Touchstone telling Audrey he was like the poet Ovid, he

remarks that Touchstone seems to have a good stock of classical learning but it is out of

place in the mouth of a motley fool like him.

Jaques means that this knowledge of classical poets like Ovid, in a fool, is worse than Jove

(the king of classical gods), disguised as an ordinary mortal, taking shelter in a poor man’s

thatched cottage.

5. Explain: ‘when a man’s verse cannot be……… great reckoning in a little room’

Ans: The word ‘forward child understanding’ means the hearer’s understanding.

‘Understanding’ is compared to a clever child who is able to understand his clever remarks.

Audrey’s intelligence is like a backward child, as she cannot understand or appreciate his

witty remarks, his quotations or his poems.

When his verses cannot be understood by Audrey, touchstone says it is more depressing

than to be handed an exorbitant bill in an ordinary inn.

6. Explain: ‘for the truest poetry is the mist feigning……. Lovers they do feign.’

Ans: Touchstone replies that the noblest poetry soars to the highest flights of imagination.

Lovers are addicted to poetry and when they express their love through poetry, it is not true

love but only pretence.

7. What does Touchstone say about the gift of a wife ?

Ans: When Audrey expresses her joy about getting married. Touchstone says that a nervous

man may stumble in his effort of getting married in the forest as their only church is the

forest and their only witnesses are horned deer.

He says that horns are unpleasant but they are necessary. It is said that many a man does not

know the full amount of his possessions. It is said that many a man does not know how

faithless his wife is. Well, that is the wealth a wife brings to her husband when she marries.

He does not get it on his own. It is not only the poor men who are made cockolds but the

rich are made cuckolds. Just like the largest deer have such large horns as the inferior one in

the herd.

8. What does Touchstone say about bachelorhood?

Ans: As a large walled town is of greater importance than a village, so the married state is

more dignified than the single. It is better to be able to defend oneself than to have no skill

with a sword. So it is better to have a faithless wife than no wife at all.

9. Who is Sir Oliver Martext?

Ans: He is an untrained priest from the neighbouring village. Martext is a jocular name

suggesting that his sermons confused people. He spoils text. He performed marriages

against the rules of the church.

10.When Jaques asks touchstone whether he wishes to marry, what reply does he get?

Ans: Touchstone says – Just as an ox needs a bow (a flexible collar to which the yoke is

attached), the horse the curb (a chain or leather strap to control it), the falcon her bells (to

trace her when she was at large), similarly man has his desire for companionship, leading to

marriage.

11.In what way does Jaques admonish touchstone?

Ans: Jaques says that he is surprised to see that a man of touchstone’s upbringing should

lower himself by being married like a wandering gypsy in the open air by a sham priest &

without any ceremony. He tells him to go to a church and get a good priest who can tell him

what marriage really is.

He says that Sir Oliver Martext will join them together just as a carpenter carelessly joins

the wooden panels on walls i.e. their marriage will disintegrate just as unseasoned timber

used for wooden panels will shrink and twist and the joints of the paneling will become

loose, causing it to break up.

12.Why does touchstone prefer to be married by Sir Oliver Martext?

Ans: Touchstone wants to be married by Martext because his marriage will soon be invalid.

That is exactly what he wants, as it would serve as a good excuse to leave Audrey whenever

he wanted to.

13.What does Martext say after they have left the scene?

Ans: He says that it does not matter. The whims of these foolish people will not make him

give up his profession as a priest who conducts religious ceremonies for a fee.

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