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WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 1998 (Objective)

Question 1 Report

Read the extract below carefully and answer the question

A : Then to be plain with you .......
I expect the young gentleman I have chosen to be your husband from town this very day.
I have his father's letter, in which he informs me his son is set out and that he intends to follow himself shortly after.

B : Indeed! I wish I had known something of this before. Bless me, how shall I behave?
It's a thousand to one
I shan't like him, Our meeting will be so formal, and so like a thing of business that I shall find no room for friendship or esteem.

The news of the suitor's visit makes Speaker B
Answer Details
Speaker B is anxious. She is worried about the prospect of meeting her suitor in a formal setting and not being able to develop feelings of friendship or esteem towards him.
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