Individual Reading 1

The narrator, a famous writer visited a fashionable woman and there acquainted with Mrs. Strickland, a wife of a well-off, middle-class stockbroker. Immediately, they became good comrades and interesting interlocutors for each other. In some time there was a meeting of the narrator and her husband Charles Strickland, who seemed to be a boring, pompous man interested only in his stock exchange affaires. Once, visiting Mrs. Strickland he became an unintentional witness of a depressed state of the woman and her brother's fury. It turned out that Charles left his wife and children and went to Paris. In order to bring her husband back, Mrs. Strickland asked the writer for the request: to go to Paris, to explain the terror of his act and to make him come back. He was afraid to offend the woman, that's why he agreed.