Read the following extract and extend it by adding an imaginary paragraph of your own in about 120 words:
[You may begin with: Mrs. Green: May I come in.......]
"May I come in?" asked the pink lady.
"Please come in," said my mother. "Do sit down. Do you require a room'?"
"Not today, thank you. I'm staying with Padre Dutt.
He insisted on putting me up. But I may want room for a day or two -- lust for old time's sake."
"You've stayed here before."
''A long time ago. I'm Mrs. Green, you know. The missing
Mrs. Green. The one for whom you put up that handsome tombstone in the cemetery. I was very touched by it. And I'm glad you didn't add 'Beloved wife of Henry Green' because I didn't' love him any more than he loved me.''
''Then - then - you aren't the skeleton?'' stammered my
mother.
''Do I look like a skeleton?''
''No!'' we said together.
· ''But we heard you disappeared,'' I said, ''and when we found that skeleton -''
''You put two and two together.''
''Well, it was Miss Kellner who convinced us,'' said my
mother. ''And you did disappear mysteriously. You were missing for years. And everyone knew Mr. Green was a philanderer!''
''Couldn't wait to get away from him," said the pink lady.
'Couldn't stand him anymore. He was a lady-killer, but not a real killer.''
''But your father ca1ne looking for you. Didn't you get in touch with him?''
Solution
Mrs. Green: May I come in?
Mother: Please come in, Do sit down. Would you require a room"?
Mrs. Green: "Not today, thank you. I'm staying with Padre Dutt. He insisted on putting me up. But I may want a room for a day or two Just for old time's sake".
Mother: Have you stayed here before?
Mrs. Green: 'A long time ago. I'm Mrs. Green, you know. The missing Mrs.Green. The one for whom you put up that handsome tombstone in the cemetery. I was very touched by it. And I'm glad you didn't add 'Beloved Wife if Henry Green' because I didn't love him any more than he loved me".
My Mother: Then-then you aren't the skeleton?
Mrs. Green: Do I look like a skeleton?
(No, writer and his mother both said together. But we heard that you disappeared & when we found that skeleton you two & two together)
Mother: Well, it was Miss Kellner who convinced us. And you did disappear mysteriously. You were missing for years. And everyone knew Mr. Green was a philanderer.
