CHAPTER XXII 

THE REAL THING AND NO MISTAKE 



'With asses all his time he spent, Their club's perpetual president, He caught their manners, looks, and airs-- An ass in everything but ears.' GAY. 

The master of the house was unable to contribute much more than his name to the propriety of the arrival of the suitors, and this made Wilmet the more determined that Geraldine should precede them. Nor, since the half-crown must be disbursed on an escort for her, did the housewifely conscience object to the expedition, for Wilmet could not but long to thank the Superior and Sister Constance, and to obtain Dr. Lee's advice as to future management. Her coming was great joy to Cherry, who had dreaded the meeting almost with a sense of guilt, though still hoping Felix had been silent on her motive; and Wilmet did not betray him, but only treated her sister with a mixture of almost shy tenderness and reverence. Nor did Cherry dare to ask a question as to Wilmet's own affairs, nor even about Ferdinand Travis, lest she should seem to be leading in that direction. However, Wilmet, in a persuasive tone, communicated that Ferdinand had been long without writing, and though Cherry tried to be sorry for Alda, her spirit quailed at the state of temper her sister evidently meant to prepare her for. 

But fate was more kind than she expected. That very Saturday brought both gentlemen, and by the same train. They made each other out as they were leaving their bags at the Fortinbras Arms, and arrived together in marked contrast--the tall, dark, regular-featured, soft- eyed Life-guardsman, and the little sandy, freckled, sun-dried engineer; and thus two courtships had to be carried on in the two rooms, only supplemented by the narrow parallelogram of a garden! For Ferdinand Travis was back again, rather amused at the family astonishment at the rapidity of his journey to America, which to his Transatlantic notions of travel was as nothing, and indeed had been chiefly performed in a big steamer, where he could smoke to his heart's content.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who was newly arrived?
2. Who had just gotten to the house?
3. Whose arrival had just occured?
Q2:
1. When did the suitors arrive?
2. What day did the suitors come in on?
3. On what day of the week did the suitors arrive?
Q3:
1. How did the suitors arrive?
2. What was the suitors means of transportation?
3. How did the suitors get to their destination?
Q4:
1. Where did the suitors stay?
2. Where were the suitors lodged?
3. In what location were the suitors being housed?
Q5:
1. What were the names of the suitors?
2. Who were the suitors?
3. What were the suitors called?
Q6:
1. Who was Ferdinand Travis coming to see?
2. Who did Ferdinand Travis want to see?
3. Who did Ferdinand Travis desire to meet with?
Q7:
1. Who resides in America?
2. Who lives in the United States?
3. For whom is the United States their place of residence?
Q8:
1. Where did the courting take place?
2. What was the location of the courting?
3. 
Q9:
1. What was the garden like?
2. How was the garden's ambiance?
3. What did the garden resemble?
Q10:
1. Who is wont to get mad?
2. Who has a tendency to get angry?
3. Who can become angry?
