CBSE Revision Notes for class 10 [English Footprints without feet] chapter 4 A question of trust

CBSE Revision Notes for class 10 English Footprints without feet chapter 4 A question of trust

CBSE A question of trust class 10 chapter 4 Revision Notes English Footprints without feet detailed Notes of the Lesson along with highlights of chapter 4 were prepared based on the latest exam pattern we have provided A question of trust class 10 chapter 4 Revision Notes to help students understand the concept very well

Chapter Sketch

Horace Danby collects rare books and Financers his hobby by breaking safes this year, however he is caught by a pretty young lady claiming to be the wife of the house owner she tricks him into opening the safe and handing her the jewels Horace is later arrested for the jewel robbery

About the Character

Horace Danby:” He is a lock -opening expert who is caught for a jewellery robbery by trusting a woman who pretended to be a family member of the owner

The Unknown:” woman she is a smart thief who uses Horace’s lock-opening skills to rob the jewellery from a safe

Overview of the chapter

Horace Danby: A Businessman and an Unusual thief:’

Horace Danby had a good reputation in society he was about fifty years old and unmarried he ran a business of making locks and had two helpers but horace was not totally honest he loved rare and expensive books Horace robbed a safe every year to finance is expensive hobby he was now going for committing a robbery

Horace Plans a theft:”

for two weeks horace had studied the country house at shotover grange whose owners normally lived in London he wanted to to burgle the jewellery lying in the safe in this house horace entered the house when the servants where away he had in allergy to flowers called hay fever he started sneezing then the heard a lady’s voice she told him a cure for the sneeze

Horace Meets a young and pretty Lady:”

then a Young and pretty lady appeared in the doorway she was young and pretty his first thoughts was to run as the lady him that she would telephone the police horace told her to let him go and forget she ever saw him

Lady’s Condition for Horace’s Freedom:”

the lady put one condition for letting Horace go she told him that she had promised her husband to take her Jeweles to the bank she had however left the Jeweles in the safe as she wanted to wear the Jeweles in a party that night she came down to get them but had forgotten the number combination to open the safe so she needed his help to break open the safe so horace opened that safe for her and handed her the jewels to get his freedom

Horace Got Arrested:”

after 2 days a police man arrested him for the Jewele robbery at shotover grange Horace’s fingerprints were found all over the room he had opened the safe without using his gloves he told the police that the lady of the house had told him to open the safe but the actual lady was a 60 years old woman she said that horace’s story was nonsense then horace realised that the Pretty young woman was also a Jewele thief who had used his skill to steal the Jewel horace is now assistant librarian in prison he often thinks of the charming and clever young lady she was in the same profession as him she had simply tricked him so he gets angry when anyone talks about honour among Thieves

Chapter Highlights “

1. Horace Danby who ran a business of making locks had a good reputation in society but he was not totally honest
2. his hobby was collecting rare and expensive books Horace robbed one safe every years to finance his costly hobby
3. Horace had been studying the country house at shotover Grange whose owner normally lived in London as he wanted to Burgle the jewellery worth about 15000 pounds lying in the safe in this house
4. Horace entered the house when the servants were away but Horace started sneezing because he had an allergy to flowers called hay fever
5. Suddenly he heard a young lady’s voice saying that she could cure him he then saw her appear in the doorway
6. His first thoughts was to run as the lady told him that she would telephone the police Horace told her to let him go and forget she ever saw him
7. the lady agreed on one condition -he should open the safe for her as she had to wear the jewels in the safe for a party the same night but she had forgotten the combination to open the safe
8. So Horace opened the safe for her and handed her the jewels to get his freedom
9. After two days Horace was arrested for the jewels robbery at shotover Grange Horace’s fingerprints were found as he had opened the safe without using his gloves
10. when he told the police that the lady of the house had asked him to open the safe he was surprised to learn that the actual lady was a 60 years old woman Horace then realised that the young woman was also a jewels thief who had used his skill to steal the jewels
11. Horace is now in Prison he understands now that the charming and clever young lady had simply tricked him

word Meanings

The given page nos, correspond to the pages in the prescribed textbook

WORD	MEANING
PAGE 20
Housekeeper	Person looking after the domestic work in a house
hay fever	disease affecting the nose and throat caused by allergy to pollen or dust
respectable	regarded as good by people
served	spent
sentence	Punishment
safe	strong locked box storing valuable items
Grange	big house in a rural area
tickle	itching
PAGE 21
make him happy	keep him satisfied
fingerprints	marks left by fingers
wondered	thoughts
room	space
burglar alarm	alarm to warm about thieves
hindering	delaying
PAGE 22
one with firmness in it	determined
ornaments	decorations
inconvenience	trouble
get you	arrest you