1. The ________ is palpable. Then suddenly the door bursts open and in walks our heroine, Sally looking like a drowned rat.

2. I'll ________ you know as soon as I come back from London. And then she went.

3. She too lives in this ________ and remote village where Andrew has his cottage.

4. He jumps down from the platform onto the ________ and waves at the train driver to stop. The train stops and Andrew gets onto it.

5. But Sally changed the subject. This drink tastes delicious. How did you make it? I put a drop of ginger ale and a piece of lemon in the alcohol and then ________ thoroughly.

6. The conversation went as follows: I hear you live in this village, too How do you ________ ? asked Andrew.

7. If you take the first left after the post office, you come to Sally's place and if you take the second ________ to the right after that you come to the cottage where Andrew lives.

8. during the wedding ________ in the village church just over two years ago.

9. Immediately Andrew started to worry. He didn't know her name. He didn't know her address and he felt strange. He ________ his pulse. He tests his mental faculties: Two and two make four.

10. For probably the first time in his life Andrew actually ________ his worry from himself to someone else.