A. 1. The words were hardly out of her mouth when she
wished she hadn’t confided her secret to Ann. 2. It is equally
wrong to confide in all and in none. 3. His confidence in success
was infectious. 4. You seem to be very confident of his
ability. 5. Now she seemed to linger at table, evidently
inclined to share confidences/to take me into her confidence.
6. I wonder if there is anything that can make him
a bit less self-confident. 7. You are making a mistake: you are
confusing me with somebody else. 8. Everybody was embarrassed
by the turn of the talk. 9. Her things are always
thrown about in confusion. 10. She dropped the coin in the
slot and took up the receiver. 11. Since I have taken the case
up I mean to drop everything to see it through. 12. For the
time being let’s drop the argument. 1 3. “After a certain age,”
said aunt Ann, “one gets a liking for dropping offat improper
moments.” 14. The boy just won’t mind his mother.
15. Who will mind the children when you’re away? 16. And
again she was unable to tell whether she would have minded
or not. 17. Mind that you must be back before twelve.
18. He seemed about to deny everything but changed his
mind. 19. But here was a man who sincerely didn’t mind
what people thought of him.
B. 1. How long has he been practising law? 2. The plan
seems good to me, let’s think how best to put it into practice.
3. It was a practice with Father to have the magazines bound
as volumes. 4. Oddlyenough/strangely enough (Odd/
strange as in may seem/as it is) it was Johnny who settled
everything. 5. You do say the oddest things/odd things sometimes.
6. There are some mighty queer things going on here.
7. She said she was not concerned in it. 8. The mother’s concern
over her daughter’s poor health kept her awake all
night. 9. “The matter concerns the interest of a friend for
whom I’m acting,” said the lawyer. 10. Why do you concern
yourself with other people’s affairs? 11. Nothing was said
concerning the matter. 12. He has a very concerned look
today. 13. The boy seemed more concerned with food than
with conversation. 14. Her heart went out to him in sympathy.
15. I smiled at her to show my sympathy. 16. He had kindly
sympathetic eyes and the manner of one who had done a
little suffering of his own accord. 17. He was sure that he
would not fail this time. 18. Robert felt that the guilt was
partly his own, that he had failed him as a human being.
19. I fail to see the humour in it. 20.I don’t believe you know
what failure is.