Q.5 (D) Answer in about 50 words to the questions given below : (4 marks)
(I) According to Miss Morstan, her case was not ‘A singular case.’ Explain. (2)
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Answer: When Holmes called her father’s disappearance “a singular case”, Miss Morstan replied that she had not yet described the most singular part — showing that her case was far stranger than merely singular.
Her father, Captain Morstan, vanished in London in 1878. When Holmes called it “a singular case”, she said the most singular part was still to come : since 1882 an unknown sender had posted her a rare pearl every year, and that day a letter called her a wronged woman and asked her to meet the writer.
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