Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER IX 

DOCTOR PATSY 

Next morning Uncle John and the Weldons--including the precious baby--went for a ride into the mountains, while Beth and Patsy took their embroidery into a sunny corner of the hotel lobby. 

It was nearly ten o'clock when A. Jones discovered the two girls and came tottering toward them. Tottering is the right word; he fairly swayed as he made his way to the secluded corner. 

"I wish he'd use a cane," muttered Beth in an undertone. "I have the feeling that he's liable to bump his nose any minute." 

Patsy drew up a chair for him, although he endeavored to prevent her. 

"Are you feeling better this morning?" she inquired. 

"I--I think so," he answered doubtfully. "I don't seem to get back my strength, you see." 

"Were you stronger before your accident?" asked Beth. 

"Yes, indeed. I went swimming, you remember. But perhaps I was not strong enough to do that. I--I'm very careful of myself, yet I seem to grow weaker all the time." 

There was a brief silence, during which the girls plied their needles. 

"Are you going to stay in this hotel?" demanded Patsy, in her blunt way. 

"For a time, I think. It is very pleasant here," he said. 

"Have you had breakfast?" 

"I took a food-tablet at daybreak." 

"Huh!" A scornful exclamation. Then she glanced at the open door of the dining-hall and laying aside her work she rose with a determined air and said: 

"Come with me!" 

"Where?" 

For answer she assisted him to rise. Then she took his hand and marched him across the lobby to the dining room. 

1. Where did Beth and Patsy go?
2. Of which building?
3. What did they plan to do there?
4. Who took the baby?
5. Where did they go?
6. Where?
7. Who did the girls meet that wasn't walking well?
8. Around what time?
9. What did Betsy wish he would use?
10. Who got him a chair?
11. What did he have for breakfast?
12. Did the women seem pleased with this?
13. Was he stronger than before?
14. What proof did he offer?
15. Was he going to be a guest at the hotel?
16. What caused him to walk poorly?
17. From what?
18. Where did Patsy plan on taking him?
19. How did she lead him?

Numbered answers:
1. a corner
2. the hotel
3. embroidery
4. Uncle John and the Weldons
5. went for a ride
6. the mountains,
7. A. Jones
8. ten o'clock
9. a cane
10. Patsy drew up a chair for him, although he endeavored to prevent her.
11. a food-tablet
12. no
13. no
14. yes
15. yes
16. He hasn't got his strength back
17. an accident
18. the dining room
19. She took his hand