Midnight Visitor
1.Give a brief description of Ausable or who was Ausable? what a type of a man he was? How was he different from the other secret agent?
Ans:- Ausable was a secret agent. He was not fit as a secret agent. He lived in a dark French hotel, on the sixth and top floor of the building. It was a small room. Ausable was very fat. He spoke the French and the German language, and also the American which brought to Paris from Boston.
Ausable did not fit any description of a secret agent.At first, he was very fat which should not be as a secret agent. Secondly, he lived in a small room which was not so good setting for a romantic adventure. At third, basically a secret agent has a spy, dealing in some secret files and danger characters but these were not available for Ausable. Fourthly, in a secret agent’s house, some mysterious figures like the crack of pistols, drugs in the wine etc are usually happened in the night but it was totally different in Ausable’s room. Fifthly, at night, a secret agent has some messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties but instead Ausable got only a general telephone call making an appointment in his room.
For these reasons, Ausable was different from the other secret agents.
2.Who was Fowler? Why did he come to meet Ausable? What was his first authentic thrill of the day?
Ans: Fowler was a writer. He was young and a romantic person.Fowler came to meet Ausable to cover him up for writing a book on detectives. Therefore, Fowler had come to the hotel where Ausable stayed.
When Ausable and Fowler entered the Ausable’s room, they thought that it was empty. But, suddenly they saw a man, named Max. Who was standing in the middle of the room with an automatic pistol was in his hand.It was the first authentic thrill of the day for Fowler.
3.Who was Max? How has Max got into the room?
Ans:- Max was a secret agent (spy). He was thin ,a little tall and his face was like a fox.
He came to the Ausable’s room secretly to collect one most important report concerning some new missiles where several men and women risked their lives.Max had entered the room by the passkey.
Ausable said that Max got into his room by the balcony. Ausable technically said like this. He wanted to believe of a balcony to defeated Max. So, he suspected Max that he had entered his room by the balcony which was connected to his apartment.
4.How does Ausable manage to make Max believe that there is a balcony attached to his room?{2015;2019}What did Ausable say about the balcony.
Ans:- Ausable created a convincing story about the present of the balcony.He said that twice in a month somebody had entered his room through the balcony.He said that the balcony belonged to the next apartment. He also narrated that the room used to be part of a large unit. The next room through that door there used to be the living room. The balcony extended under his window and somebody entered his room through that.
Ausable's manner of description and speaking convinced Max there was indeed a balcony under his window.This story is totally a convincing story because if Ausable could not convince Max that he and Fowler might be face in danger.
5.Who was the midnight visitor in the story ‘the midnight visitor’?
Or:- Briefly describe how Ausable defeated Max’s scheme to take away the report.{2016}Or Describe how Ausable got rid of Max.
Ans:--The Midnight visitor was Max who had come to Ausable’s room to collect the important report concerning some new missiles.
Ausable got rid of Max by telling (Ausable defeated Max) the two convincing stories .One was the balcony.Ausable informed that someone entered his room in the month and that was the second time, Max entered his room through the balcony.Actually there was no balcony under the window.Other convincing story was the police. When Henry, a waiter knocked at his door then Ausable informed Max that that was the police whom he expected to come to give some extra protection for the report and to seek everything was alright or not. Thus, Ausable got rid of Max Or Thus, Ausable defeated Max’s scheme to take away the report.
6.Who was Fowler ? Give a brief description of his meeting with Ausable ? [HSLC-2018-2020]
Ans : Fowler was a young romantic writer .
Fowler came to meet Ausable to cover him up for writing a book on detectives. When he had met Ausable , he was disappointed because Ausable did not fit to the category of detectives in anyway as Fowler had read about it in books.When they were going to the room where Ausable stayed,he had told that he was waiting for a paper for which many people had risked their lives.
When Ausable and Fowler entered the Ausable’s room, they thought that it was empty. But, suddenly they saw a man, named Max. Who was standing in the middle of the room with an automatic pistol was in his hand.It was the first authentic thrill of the day for Fowler.Later,at the end of the story,Fowler had looked at Ausable as what happened there was beyond his imagination.
7.Who was Max ?Give a brief description of his conversation with Ausable{2017}
Ans : Max was a spy or a secret agent.
Ausable met him in his room . It seemed that they had known each other .Max came to the Ausable’s room secretly to collect one most important report concerning some new missiles where several men and women risked their lives.When Ausable entered his room with Fowler,Max was waiting for Ausable with an automatic pistol in his hand in order to get an important document on missiles . Then Ausable told him about the convincing story of balcony . Max said that he did not enter the room through any balcony . He entered using passkey.
As they heard the knock at the door,Ausable told Max that it Might be the police whom i informed for extra protection .Then Max became nervous .He backed towards the window to hide himself on the balcony .He asked Ausable to sent them back quickly and warned not to play any trick with him.
8.How did Max try to get the report from Ausable ?What happened to him in the end and how ?
Ans : Ausable met him in his room . It seemed that they had known each other .Max came to the Ausable’s room secretly to collect one most important report concerning some new missiles where several men and women risked their lives.When Ausable entered his room with Fowler,Max was waiting for Ausable with an automatic pistol in his hand in order to get an important document on missiles . Then Ausable told him about the convincing story of balcony . Max said that he did not enter the room through any balcony . He entered using passkey.
As they heard the knock at the door,Ausable told Max that it Might be the police whom i informed for extra protection .Then Max became nervous .He backed swiftly towards the window to hide himself on the balcony .He asked Ausable to sent them back quickly and warned not to play any trick with him
Finally Max turned the door knob , pushed with his left hard to free himself and fell down through that imaginary balcony . Nothing more than a shrill scream was heard of him .
9.Who , between Ausable and Max , do you think is more intelligent ? { 2020}
Ans : Ausable is more intelligent than Max. He was a cool person who did not become nervous when he found Max holding a pistol in his locked room Without any puzzled Ausable created the convincing story of balcony and the convincing story of police Finally , believing in Ausable’s words he wanted to escape through the balcony which was really not there . He fell down to where he did not know . Only a shrill was heard as his last voice .
Thus Ausable with his presence of mind frustrated Max’s plan and got rid of him . Ausable’s activities proved him to be more intelligent than Max..
