CHAPTER I 

GUY POYNTON AGAIN 

"I Suppose," the boy said thoughtfully, "I must seem to you beastly ungrateful. You've been a perfect brick to me ever since that night. But I can't help being a bit homesick. You see, it was really the first time I'd ever been away from home for long, and though my little place isn't a patch on this, of course, still, I was born there, and I'm jolly fond of it." 

His companion nodded, and his dark eyes rested for a moment upon the other's face. Guy Poynton was idly watching the reapers at work in the golden valley below, and he did not catch his friend's expression. 

"You are very young, _mon cher ami_," he said. "As one grows older one demands change. Change always of scene and occupation. Now I, too, am most hideously bored here, although it is my home. For me to live is only possible in Paris--Paris, the beautiful." 

Guy looked away from the fields. He resented a little his friend's air of superiority. 

"There's only a year's difference in our ages!" he remarked. 

Henri de Bergillac smiled--this time more expressively than ever, and held out his hands. 

"I speak of experience, not years," he said. "You have lived for twenty years in a very delightful spot no doubt, but away from everything which makes life endurable, possible even, for the child of the cities. I have lived for twenty-one years mostly in Paris. Ah, the difference!" 

Guy shrugged his shoulders, and leaned back in his chair.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What was being watched by Guy Poynton in the valley below?
2. What did Guy Poynton watch in the valley below?
3. 
Q2:
1. What is the name of the city where Henri de Bergillac wants to live?
2. Henri de Bergillac wishes to live in which city?
3. 
Q3:
1. Does Henri de Bergillac live in Paris?
2. Is Paris the city where Henri de Bergillac lives?
3. 
Q4:
1. What is the age difference between Henri de Bergillac and Guy Poynton?
2. What is the difference in the ages of Henri de Bergillac and Guy Poynton?
3. 
Q5:
1. Does Henri de Bergillac believe Guy Poynton to be very young?
2. Is Guy Poynton very young, according to Henri de Bergillac?
3. 
Q6:
1. Is Henri de Bergillac happy with the location where he currently lives?
2. Does the place where Henri de Bergillac lives make him happy?
3. 
Q7:
1. Does Guy Poynton love the place where he was born?
2. Does the place where Guy Poynton was born make him feel good?
3. 
Q8:
1. Is Guy Poynton homesick regarding the place where he was born?
2. Does Guy Poynton feel a little homesick regarding the place where he was born?
3. 
Q9:
1. What has Henri de Bergillac been to Guy Poynton ever since that night?
2. What has Guy Poynton called Henri de Bergillac in the beginning of the story?
3. 
Q10:
1. What do older people ask for, according to Henri de Bergillac?
2. When people grow older, what do they ask for says Henri de Bergillac?
3. 
Q11:
1. Did Guy Poynton resent Henri de Bergillac's air of superiority?
2. Was Henri de Bergillac's air of superiority resented by Guy Poynton?
3. 
