CHAPTER II. 

When Brant returned to his hotel there was an augmented respect in the voice of the clerk as he handed him a note with the remark that it had been left by Senator Boompointer's coachman. He had no difficulty in recognizing Susy's peculiarly Brobdingnagian school-girl hand. 

"Kla'uns, I call it real mean! I believe you just HOPED I wouldn't know you. If you're a bit like your old self you'll come right off here--this very night! I've got a big party on--but we can talk somewhere between the acts! Haven't I growed? Tell me! And my! what a gloomy swell the young brigadier is! The carriage will come for you--so you have no excuse." 

The effect of this childish note upon Brant was strangely out of proportion to its triviality. But then it was Susy's very triviality--so expressive of her characteristic irresponsibility--which had always affected him at such moments. Again, as at Robles, he felt it react against his own ethics. Was she not right in her delightful materialism? Was she not happier than if she had been consistently true to Mrs. Peyton, to the convent, to the episode of her theatrical career, to Jim Hooker--even to himself? And did he conscientiously believe that Hooker or himself had suffered from her inconsistency? No! From all that he had heard, she was a suitable helpmate to the senator, in her social attractiveness, her charming ostentations, her engaging vanity that disarmed suspicion, and her lack of responsibility even in her partisanship. Nobody ever dared to hold the senator responsible for her promises, even while enjoying the fellowship of both, and it is said that the worthy man singularly profited by it. Looking upon the invitation as a possible distraction to his gloomy thoughts, Brant resolved to go.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who gave the message to Brant?
2. The message was given to Brant by whom?
3. 
Q2:
1. Who handed Brant the message?
2. The message was transmitted to Brant by whom?
3. 
Q3:
1. What person was the writer of the message?
2. Who penned the message?
3. 
Q4:
1. What was unusual about the clerk when he was handed the message?
2. What changed about the clerk when he was handed the message?
3. 
Q5:
1. What made him figure Susy sent the message?
2. What made him find out it was Susy that sent the message?
3. 
Q6:
1. In what way did the message personify Susy?
2. In what way did the message encapsulate Susy?
3. 
Q7:
1. What was Susy asking the clerk in her message?
2. What was being asked by Susy in her message to the clerk?
3. 
Q8:
1. What place would Susy and the clerk meet ?
2. What would be the whereabouts of the meeting?
3. 
Q9:
1. By which means would the clerk get there?
2. By which manner would the clerk get to the meeting place?
3. 
Q10:
1. Did the clerk intend on going?
2. Was it the clerk’s intention to go?
3. 
Q11:
1. What did Susy do for a living?
2. What was Susy’s profession?
3. 
Q12:
1. Who did Susy help?
2. Who did Susy attend to?
3. 
Q13:
1. What personality traits of Susy’s  deflected criticicsm?
2.  What characteristic of Susy’s personality diverted criticism?
3. 
Q14:
1. Was Susy efficient?
2. Was Susy good at what she did?
3. 
