Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school?

Sophie and Jansie were both classmates and friends. On their way to home from school, both were discussing to find some work after schooling. Sophie was a girl of imagination and day dreaming. She thought of having a boutique. Jansie was very much aware about their financial conditions and family background. She knew that both were earmarked for the biscuit factory after passing school.

Sophie was a girl of deep imagination and unrealistic dreams. On her way home she told her classmate Jansie to have a boutique. She will be like Mary Quant and will be having the most amazing shop this city had ever seen. But Jansie asked Sophie to be sensible because her dad would never allow it. She had an other option of becoming an actress alongwith her boutique. She also thought of becoming a fashion designer. But Jansie discouraged her because she knew that both were earmarked for the biscuit factory. Both belonged to a lower middle class family and their families were not well-off financially.

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V. Imp.

No, Geoff does not seen to believe in Sophie’s meeting with Danny Casey. He rather says that it is the unlikeliest thing. The following lines from the text can be quoted for reference:

“I met Danny Casey,” Sophie said

The looked around abruptly “Where” ?

“In the arcade-funnily enough.”

“It’s never true.”

He inquired more about Casey’s look. But her answer did not satisfy Geoff. When Sophie asked Geoff not to tell that to others, Geoff replied that there was nothing to tell. All these facts testify that Geoff did not believe Sophie’s meeting with Casey.

No, Sophie’s father does not believe her story though he is a fan of Danny Casey. When Geoff tells his father about Sophie’s meeting with Casey, he turned his head to look at her. His expression was one of disdain. He ignores her and talks about another football player named Tom Finney. Then Sophie told that Casey was going to buy a shop. Her father grimaced and called it her another ‘wild story.’

Danny Casey was a celebrity. Sophie was a girl belonging to a middle class family. She had indulged in fantasizing and told her brother Geoff about her meeting with Danny Casey. When their father came in the room and switched on the television, Geoff passed the news of Sophie’s meeting with Danny Casey. Hearing these words Sophie wriggled where she was sitting at the table. Her father looked at her with an expression of disdain. He called it another of her wild stories.

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