Class XI Com English Drama 2

I hope that you are enjoying this drama !

before reading through pg26 to the end of the first half of pg28, go through, in your mind what you read the last time. Some questions you might ask yourself are :

1. What type of a soldier did Raina say the 'The Man' was ? 
2. Remember that she also said that he was "a very poor soldier" Why did she think him so ?
3. What description have we heard of 'The Man's' fatigue ?
4. What do you think is the significance of Raina's plea "How can you be so indifferent" ? What did she think he was indifferent to ?
5. What do you think is the significance of Raina saying "I'll save you......You want me to save you, don't you ?"

Now read through page 26 to 28

Please note that all the interaction works towards the portrayal of the building of a relationship between these two which will, in the last act, lead to them being betrothed to each other.

Note to the humour "A pet what ?" 

Raina is attempting to justify her decision to save 'The Man'. Her justification is that the Petkoff's especially Catherine and herself are moved by ideals which lesser mortals are not - one of which is that they never turn away a person who seeks their assistance - no matter who that person is !

Raina does brag about their status and their home - which by Bulgarian standards is very high. The irony is that she does not realise that she is talking to a person who, himself is a man of means (as we shall hear of later in the play) - however, we do learn something of his background too.

You could make sentences of your own on the following after understanding their meanings in the context : mechanically; to gain fast on; to address someone; to be patronizing; notion; hospitable; pledge; reassure; dubiously; delicacy; 

You might write a few lines of Romantic notions of hospitality.