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Delia, his mother, was very independent, led a busy life, and rarely asked anything of her son. She ________ (33) him she thought he'd enjoy it. He had been to the same dinner with her once a few years before, and he knew that the tickets cost a fortune. It was one of the charity things she could do with the money she got from her husband's insurance. Now she went every year and treated her sister to the ticket.

His aunt Gladys would never have spent the money, ________ (34) she could afford to — far more so than his mother.

He picked his mother up at her apartment that night. She was wearing a simple black evening gown, and she looked glamorous. Seeing her, he was suddenly ________ (35) of the picture of the countess that he had seen in the gallery that afternoon.

His mother had the same aristocratic elegance of another time. And he was proud to be with her, as she took his arm and ________ (36) him to the town car he had hired for the evening.

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Owen

Owen was late again. He ran up the stairs and ________ (30) a large, elegantly furnished room full of undergraduates and professors, with oil paintings of more ancient versions of the latter decorating the walls. Owen spotted someone he recognized.

It was Mr Nelson, who ________ (31) Owen and his friend Lewis that the tutorial would be on Tuesday, at nine o’clock.

Lewis made sure that Owen was on time for his first tutorial with Mr Nelson the following morning, but even so, Owen still ________ (32) to turn up only moments before the appointed hour.

The senior tutor opened his remarks by making it clear that weekly essays were to be ________ (33) every Thursday by five o’clock, and if anyone was late for a tutorial, they should not be surprised to find the door locked.

Owen was grateful that his room was a hundred yards from Mr Nelson’s, and that his mother ________ (34) him with an alarm clock.

The tutorial went far better than Owen had dared to hope. His spirits were raised further when he ________ (35) that evening that the senior tutor shared his love of Boswell, as well as Byron and Wordsworth, and had been a personal friend of Browning.