10. (i) : By using the phrase “find out”, ‘The Man’ means to say that
he will confront the Bulgarian soldiers and crowd in pursuit of him. ‘The Man’
had previously said that he would fight “like a demon” and he promised that her
pretty room would be spoilt with the blood of war. Thus he wishes to say that
the first person who comes will find that he is not going to be an easy victim
he will fight until he dies as he will not be taken as their prisoner to be
humiliated by them.
(ii) : ‘The Man’ Tells Raina to keep out of the way because he does not
wish to have her hurt when it comes to a confrontation involving guns and
swords between him the Bulgarian soldiers and others who come into the room.
(iii) : According to ‘The Man’ his defence against the pursuing
Bulgarian soldiers and bloodthirsty pursuing crowd as he is only one person and
he believes that even though he will put up a resistance, because he is only
one, he will be easily defeated.
It will not be “nice”
because they will be fighting with swords (“sabres”). He had told Raina that
“they” will “slaughter” him “like a pig”, he has warned her that her nice room
will be spoilt.
(iv) : Raina wants to save ‘The Man’ for two reasons, firstly, she has
been educated and brought up in the romantic ways of doing things and as she
will explain later to ‘The Man’, to her, her guest is sacred, even if the guest
is an enemy soldier.
Another reason is that
Raina has already been “enchanted” by ‘The Man’ , though she does not say as
much now, but later in the report we hear from Sergius we come to know this.
Also at the end of this first Act, Raina will call ‘The Man’, “the poor
darling” revealing her affection for him. In addition Louka tells Sergius that
she knows the real way eople act when they truly love each other and that Raina
will marry ‘The Man’ when he return “whether he likes it or not !”
(v) : ‘The Man’ feels that “there is just half a chance” of his being
saved if Raina “keeps her mind” meaning that if she does not get nervous when
the soldiers enter the room and unwittingly give up the place where she has
hidden him.
(vi) : Before Raina decides that she will save him, ‘The Man’ believes
that he has been found out and defeated, because just before this passage ‘The
Man’ has said that there was no use of his trying to force her to give him
refuge as Louka was outside the door pleading with Raina to open the door or
the soldiers would break it down. He also knew that being only one against so
many he would be slaughtered like a pig because he would die defending himself.
Thus he knows that his whereabouts have been located and that this will be his
last but fateful stand.
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