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    A Question of Trust

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    The document summarizes a story about Horace Danby, who steals annually to fund his book collection habit. One year, when breaking into Shotover Grange, he is confronted by a young lady who claims to live there. She tricks him into believing she is a resident and has him open the safe, stealing the jewels inside. While Horace is usually a careful planner, he fails to verify information about the home's occupants, allowing the woman to deceive him.

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    The document summarizes a story about Horace Danby, who steals annually to fund his book collection habit. One year, when breaking into Shotover Grange, he is confronted by a young lady who claims to live there. She tricks him into believing she is a resident and has him open the safe, stealing the jewels inside. While Horace is usually a careful planner, he fails to verify information about the home's occupants, allowing the woman to deceive him.

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    The document summarizes a story about Horace Danby, who steals annually to fund his book collection habit. One year, when breaking into Shotover Grange, he is confronted by a young lady who claims to live there. She tricks him into believing she is a resident and has him open the safe, stealing the jewels inside. While Horace is usually a careful planner, he fails to verify information about the home's occupants, allowing the woman to deceive him.

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    A Question of Trust

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    The document summarizes a story about Horace Danby, who steals annually to fund his book collection habit. One year, when breaking into Shotover Grange, he is confronted by a young lady who claims to live there. She tricks him into believing she is a resident and has him open the safe, stealing the jewels inside. While Horace is usually a careful planner, he fails to verify information about the home's occupants, allowing the woman to deceive him.

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    A Question of Trust

    Theme- One should not trust anyone without finding out about that person. 

    Characters- Horace Danby, Young Lady, Sherry

    Read and Find Out (Page 20)

    Question 1. What does Horace Danby like to collect?

    Answer: Horace Danby likes to collect rare and expensive books.

    Question 2. Why does he steal every year?

    Answer: He stole every year so that he could buy the rare and expensive books that he loved to collect.
    Each year he planned carefully so as to steal enough to last twelve months.

    Page 22

    Question 3. Who is speaking to Horace Danby?

    Answer: A lady standing in the doorway is speaking to Horace Danby. She was young and pretty and was
    dressed in red. She said she had come just in time, or else her family would have been robbed by Horace.
    Thus, she pretended to be one of the members of the family living at Shotover Grange.

    Question 4. Who is the real culprit in the story?

    Answer: The real culprit in the story is the woman who pretended to be a member of the family living at
    Shotover Grange. She tricked Horace Danby into believing her, and cleverly took away all the jewels that
    were kept in the safe.

    Think About It (Page 25)

    Question 1. 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?

    Answer: Yes, we begin to suspect before the end of the story that the lady was not the person Horace
    Danby took her to be. She was unusually calm on seeing Horace. This seemed strange. When she did not
    call the police, and instead asked Horace to take out all the jewels from the safe, even if it meant breaking it
    open, it seems suspicious. Moreover, it seemed highly unlikely that she would forget the number
    combination to open the safe. Therefore, it was evident, before the story ended, that the lady was not the
    person Horace had taken her to be.

    Question 2. What are the subtle ways in which the lady manages to deceive Horace Danby into thinking
    she is the lady of the house? Why doesn’t Horace suspect that something is wrong?

    Answer: Her confident walk, her familiarity with the dog Sherry, her act of touching up her make-up and
    the ease with which she picks a cigarette from the right place are enough to deceive anybody. Horace was
    too frightened to think properly, so he didn’t suspect anything.

    Question 3. “Horace Danby was good and respectable – but not completely honest”. Why do you think this
    description is apt for Horace? Why can’t he be categorised as a typical thief?

    Answer: Horace’s habits were not typical of a thief. He was fond of books. He used to steal only once in a
    year so he was never stealing more than his needs. However, an act of theft is still a crime, no matter how
    well a thief behaves, so this description is apt for Horace. He can’t be categorised as a typical thief because
    he is not a regular offender like other thieves.

    Question 4. Horace Danby was a meticulous planner but still he faltered. Where did he go wrong and why?

    Answer: Horace Danby failed to get enough information about the real occupants of the house. He seems
    to be too occupied with collecting information about the house map, wiring and location of valuable items.
    Although he was smart enough to know the dog’s actual name, he overlooked getting information about
    the occupants of the house. When he landed in trouble with the appearance of the young lady, his clever
    mind gave way to carelessness, leading him to open the safe without wearing gloves.

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