BLACKMAIL I. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible- 1Did Ogilvie deliberated” delay his call at the Croydo ns' suite? Why?2 Why did the Duchess send her maid and secretary out? 3Why do you think Ogilvie was being deliberately ofen sive to the Croyd ons in the begi nning? 4How did the Duchess know where the Duke had gone the ni ght the accide nt occurred? 5How did Ogilvie come to suspect the Croydons of the hit-' n run crime? 6 what is a 'brush trace'? 7What made the Duchess jump to the conclusion that Ogilvie had come to blackmail them? 8Why did n't the police come immediately to the hotel to check the cars? 9Why could n't the Duchess get her car repaired discreetly in New Orlea ns? 10 Why did the Duchess decide to make the detective drive their car no rth? 11Why did the Duchess offer Ogilvie twen ty-five thousa nd dollars in stead of the ten thousa nd the detective asked for? 12Did Ogilvie accept the Duchess ' offer? II ・ Paraphrase: 1The house detective's piggy eyes surveyed her sard oni cally from his gross jowled face. 2 Pretty n eat set-up you folks got. 3The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle. 4 He lowered the level of his incon gruous falsetto voice. 5 The words spat forth with sudde n savagery, all prete nse of bla ndn ess gone. 6The Duchess of Corydon —three centuries and a half of in-bred arroganee behi nd her -- did not yield easily. 7 "It is no go, old girl. I'm afraid. It was a good try." 8"That's more like it," Ogilvie said. He lit the fresh cigar, "Now we're gett ing somewhere." 9his eyes sard oni cally on the Duchess as if challe nging her objecti on. 10 The house detective clucked his ton gue repro vin gly. 皿・ Translate the following into Chinese: 1"I 'll tell you, Duke -- I've bee n in this tow n and this hotel a long time. I got friends all over. I oblige them; they do the same for me, like letting me know what gives, an' where. There ain't much, out of the way, which people who stay in this hotel do, I don ' t get to hear about. Most of 'em n ever know I know, or know me. They think they got their little secret tucked away, and so they have -except like no w." 2"Well now, there's no call for being hasty," The incongruous falsetto voice took on a musing no te. "What's don e's bee n done. Rushi n' any place ain't gonna bring back the kid nor its mother neither. Besides, what they' d do to you across at the headquarters, Duke, you would n ' t' t like. No sir, you would n't like it at all." 3 The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind. It was
