Activity 1. Vocabulary study - use a dictionary to define the following in conveying the ideas and mood of the story?

Cad : bad person who takes advantage of other people
Wits: intelligence brain, learning on you own, ''street smart''
Woo: charm and manipulate somebody
Fleece: steel
Desert: escape, leave
Drop names: faking to know names to look important
Fabricate: Invent story
Pull off: to get away with
Seamstress: she sews hats
Milliner: hat maker
Plain-looking: looking ordinary
Feigns: Make believe
Taken aback: Being surprised
Reel in: Capture
Blandishments: sweet talks
Blanch: react negativly
Comsummate: make love
Brooch: jewel

Activity 2. Plot: put the events in the proper sequence.PlotAct I

__2__ A. Georgia and Adelaide talk in separate monologues - George describes his role as a gigolo and Adelaide talks about her inheritance.

__6__ B. The next day they meet in the park and things happen fast - Georgia declares his love, asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts without much questioning.

__4__ C. The next day, George bumps into her by chance and invites her to lunch as he plays the perfect gentleman.

__3__ D. He says that his suits are attractive to women.

__5__ E. George enters the shop behind her and asks about the green hat in the window - the seduction of Adelaide has begun.

__1__ F. They are married in a coastal resort, book into a hotel, play cards the whole night long but do not make love because Adelaide carries a lot of emotional baggage from the past.

__9__ G. Adelaide is touched and accepts his invitation.

__8__ H. We first meet George who tells us he wears expensive clothes, just like those worn by the upper class of England.

__10__ I. The action really starts with George walking down Edgeware Road and coming face to face with Adelaide outside the clothing shop.

__7__ J. We meet Adelaide who tells us she works in the back room of a clothing store as a milliner.

Act II.


__7__ A. She dreams about opening a clothing store together; it would be the perfect fit for them.

_4___ B. George makes excuses and convinces Adelaide to take a bath.

__5__ C. Saying he has a headache, George does not go to the post office with Adelaide, but returns to the room, hoping to escape with the money and brooch.

__3__ D. Unfortunately for her George does the unthinkable.

___6_ E. George hesitates, Adelaide prepares to leave, he tries to get her money back, and he becomes angry.

__1__ F. Adelaide realizes her brooch is not there and confronts George about his lies, telling him to stop pretending.

__10__ G. She takes on an assertive role: she wants to stay with him rather than her parents and proposes a plan to him.

___8_ H. But for some unknown reason, George returns to the room to leave the brooch and as
he is leaving a second time comes face-to-face with Adelaide.

____ I. Adelaide decides to stay when she learns about George's troubled past.

____J. After Adelaide wakes up, she and George head to the bank to withdraw her inheritance and she writes a letter to her family.