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1. Where did David first see Miss Walker?
2. When David went around to Miss Walker's house to give her his father's gift he met up with Mike Saunders, who had been at the same school as him. Mike was living in the ground floor rooms of Miss Walker's house, but with whom?
3. As time went on David became adept at disguising his activities from his family; he started going to the Workmen's Institute with Mike to cover his trips to the pub, and would eat sweets from the shop to cover the smell of beer. On his first trip to the pub, however, it was Mike who suggested the means of clearing his breath - what was this?
4. How much money did Miss Walker claim to have saved in order to buy back the Old Vine?
5. When Miss Walker claimed to have saved all this money David was the only one who believed her, and only because she would not let him in her room as she had done before. He hatched a plan to rob her of her money and remain anonymous - if anyone believed that the old woman had been robbed of such a large amount anyway. How did he think of doing this?
6. The plan worked quite well to a point, until Mike interrupted the robbery, so David had no choice but to include him in the crime. He gave Mike £500, which he said was half the haul, and told him to behave naturally. Just a few days later Mike broke his habit and contacted David - to tell him what?
7. When David discovered that Mike had run off with the barmaid they both fancied, he hatched a further plan to frame his friend for the murder of his landlady. To make this work there was something else he had to do - what was it?
8. Mary Crisp was just one of the daughters of a later owner of the centre unit of the Old Vine; she was the one who stayed until the family sold the unit, which had become a café. Her future husband came into the café one evening and stayed many days because of lumbago (we learn later that it was a war wound). What did Mary and Robert call this affliction?
9. Throughout Norah Loft's books there are references to the supernatural, and in this particular story it revolves around a change of heart which comes upon people in a certain place. It was mentioned in Antony Flowerdew's Tale, and in this one it was Mary's father who was affected. Before this he was a conscientious man who wanted only the best, and afterwards he lost all heart for anything but going from hour to hour. Which place had this effect on certain people?
10. Robert died under the surgeon's knife, and because it was not counted as a war wound, Mary did not receive a pension for herself or their child, Bobby. What did she do?
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