NCERT Solutions for Class 10
English - Footprints Without Feet
Chapter 3 – Midnight Visitor
Read and Find Out
1. How is Ausable different from other secret agents?
Ans: Ausable was distinct from other covert agents in several respects. He had a
modest room in a dingy French hotel's musty corridor. It was on the sixth and top
story, and it was hardly a romantic adventure scene. He was incredibly chubby.
Despite having lived in Paris for almost two decades, he could only communicate in
French and German and had an American accent. Instead of dark-eyed beauties
slipping messages into his palms, he received a phone call setting up an appointment.
In these ways, he was distinct from the stereotype of a spy.
2. Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?
Ans: Fowler was an author who had traveled to meet Ausable. When Fowler spotted
a man in Ausable's room aiming a pistol at Ausable and himself, he had his first
genuine thrill of the day.
3. How has Max got in?
Ans: Ausable assumed Max had entered the room by the balcony, which made him
angry because he didn't have a gallery. Max, on the other hand, admitted that he had
entered using a master key and was unaware of the balcony.
4. How does Ausable say he got in?
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English - Footprints Without Feet
Chapter 3 – Midnight Visitor
Read and Find Out
1. How is Ausable different from other secret agents?
Ans: Ausable was distinct from other covert agents in several respects. He had a
modest room in a dingy French hotel's musty corridor. It was on the sixth and top
story, and it was hardly a romantic adventure scene. He was incredibly chubby.
Despite having lived in Paris for almost two decades, he could only communicate in
French and German and had an American accent. Instead of dark-eyed beauties
slipping messages into his palms, he received a phone call setting up an appointment.
In these ways, he was distinct from the stereotype of a spy.
2. Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?
Ans: Fowler was an author who had traveled to meet Ausable. When Fowler spotted
a man in Ausable's room aiming a pistol at Ausable and himself, he had his first
genuine thrill of the day.
3. How has Max got in?
Ans: Ausable assumed Max had entered the room by the balcony, which made him
angry because he didn't have a gallery. Max, on the other hand, admitted that he had
entered using a master key and was unaware of the balcony.
4. How does Ausable say he got in?
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