Make use of the article to answer the questions.

CHAPTER IX 

Isobel was standing quite still in the middle of the room, her hands tightly clenched, a spot of colour aflame in her cheeks. Arthur, who had passed Lady Delahaye and me upon the stairs, had apparently just been told the object of her visit. 

"Oh, I hate that woman!" Isobel exclaimed as I entered, "I hate her! I would rather die than go to her. I would rather go back to the convent. She looks at me as though I were something to be despised, something which should not be allowed to go alive upon the earth!" 

Arthur would have spoken, but Mabane interrupted him. He laid his hand gently upon her shoulder. 

"Isobel," he said gently, "you need have no fear. I know how Arnold feels about it, and I can speak for myself also. You shall not go to her. We will not give you up. I do not believe that she will go to the courts at all. I doubt if she has any claim." 

"Why, we'd hide you, run away with you, anything," Arthur declared impetuously. "Don't you be scared, Isobel, I don't believe she can do a thing. The law's like a great fat animal. It takes a plaguey lot to move it, and then it moves as slowly as a steam-roller. We'll dodge it somehow." 

She gave them a hand each. Her action was almost regal. It some way, it seemed that in according her our protection we were receiving rather than conferring a favour. 

1. Where was Isobel?
2. How did she clench her hands?
3. Who passed the narrator at the stairs?
4. Who else was there?
5. What Arthur told her?
6. Where was Isobel prior to this place?
7. Did she hate the woman?
8. What she would rather do than to go to her?
9. Did she give the narrator a nasty look?
10. Who interrupted Arthur?
11. Did Arthur try to reassure Isobel?
12. Did he tell her not be scared?
13. Did he and Arnold feel the same way about it?

Numbered answers:
1. the middle of the room
2. tightly
3. Arthur
4. Lady Delahaye
5. the object of her visit
6. he convent
7. yes
8. die
9. yes
10. Mabane
11. yes
12. yes
13. yes