CBSE Rivision Notes for Class 10 English Footprints Without Feet Chapter 3 The Midnight Visitor

CBSE Rivision Notes for Class 10 English Footprints Without Feet Chapter 3 The Midnight Visitor

Chapter Sketch
Ausable, a secret agent, is expecting to get a very important report. Another secret agent, Max, threatens him with a pistol, demanding the report. This story tells how Ausable outwits Max by making up convincing stories.

About the Characters

• Ausable He is a secret agent who does not look like one at all, but shows great presence of mind to outwit another secret agent.
• Fowler He is a young and romantic writer who is looking for some excitement in the company of a secret agent like Ausable.
• Max A rival secret agent who is fooled by Ausable and falls to his death.

OVERVIEW OF THE CHAPTER
Meeting of Secret Agent Ausable and Writer Fowler :
Ausable was a smart secret agent, but did not look like one at all, being short and very fat. Fowler was a young writer who wanted to write about Ausable and so spent an evening with him. Fowler was feeling disappointed so far, as he could not find any characteristic of a secret agent in Ausable.

Another Secret Agent Max seen with a Pistol :
When both Ausable and fowler entered Ausable’s hotel room, another secret agent rmmed Max was waiting in the room with an automatic pistol pointed at them. Max was there because he had come to know that Ausable was going to receive an important report about some new missiles that night. Max threatened to shoot if Ausable tried to act smart.

Ausable Confuses Max :
To ensure the report’s safety as well as his own and the writer’s safety, Ausable invented a story about anybody entering his room easily through a balcony just below the window in his room. Actually there was no balcony – if anybody climbed out from the window, he would fall to his death, as the room was on the sixth floor. However, Max told them that he had entered the room through the door using a passkey.

Max Jumps In the Non-existing Balcony and Dies :
Suddenly there was a knocking on the door and Ausable pretended that it was the local police, who had been asked to provide him extra security for the important document he was about to receive. When the knocking was repeated, Max became angry at Ausable and decided to wait in the balcony (which he thought existed) until the police went away. He stepped out of the window and fell to his death.
When the door opened, a waiter came in with drinks which Ausable had ordered to be delivered to his room when he had returned to the hotel.

Chapter Highlights

1.  Ausable was a smart secret agent, but did not look like one at all, being short and very fat. Fowler was a young writer who wanted to write about Ausable and so spent an evening with him.
2.  When both of them returned to Ausable’s sixth floor hotel room, another secret agent named Max was waiting for them with a gun so that he could take the important report on new missiles from Ausable.
3.  To ensure the report’s and their own safety, Ausable invented a story about anybody entering his room easily through a balcony just below the window in his room. Actually there was no balcony.
4.  Suddenly there was a knocking on the door and Ausable pretended that it was the local police.
5.  When the knocking was repeated, Max decided to wait in the balcony (which he thought existed) until the police went away. He stepped out of the window and fell to his death.
6.  When the door opened, a waiter came in with drinks which Ausable had ordered to be delivered to his room when he had returned to the hotel.

WORD MEANINGS
The given page nos. correspond to the pages in the prescribed textbook.

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