FOURTEEN

 

FOURTEEN

Text Book Answers

1.  Pringle, who is the hostess of the dinner party, is shown entering the stage wearing a “lovely evening gown”. She carries with her a bouquet of flowers sent by Harper who has declined the invitation due to one of his friend’s illness. Though she admires Harper for sending the flowers but she disapproves of young men refusing dinner invitations at the eleventh hour. She looks excited as she is expecting a number of guests at her dinner party.

5.  Pringle had selected Oliver as her daughter, Elaine’s suitor. The sitting arrangement was made in such a manner that Elaine was to sit next to Oliver.  Pringle wanted her daughter to win the heart of Oliver by any means as he was a millionaire and belonged to an aristocratic lineage. When the secretary of Oliver informed Pringle over telephone that   would not be able to attend the dinner since he was to leave for Boston immediately on business purpose, Pringle got utterly disappointed and started throwing tantrums on Oliver for having spoiled all her dinner plans and most importantly her plan to get her daughter married to him. She considered it as the only chance for her daughter to meet the young man and leave an impression on him.