P27
1. …I can tell…: I can tell from the outside how the inside looks.
2. But the dress was over my head…: Marguerite’s dress was pulled upwards. Half way through, the dress was over her head.
3. Through the cloth film, I saw the shadow approach: With the dress over her head she couldn’t see clearly. She could see only through the thin material the approaching shadow of Mrs. Flowers.
P29
1. the Good Book: the Bible
P31
1. womanish: often used of men: possessing the quality of a woman
2. womanly: (of women: the beauty of a woman; of grown-up woman) of grown-up woman
3. fitting: proper, suitable, appropriate, apt, befitting, fit
4. sunstroke: (heatstroke) an illness with fever, weakness and headache caused by too much strong sunlight esp. on the head
5. slanting: lopsided, leaning, including, tilting