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The Eyes Have It by Ruskin Bond

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1."The man who had entered the compartment broke into my reverie" -Who was  'the man'?  When did the man enter the compartment?Whose reverie is mentioned here?What was the the reverie?How was the reverie broken? [1+1+1+2+1]

Ans :  The new fellow-traveller of the narrator in "The Eyes Have It" was the man.

◻️ The man entered the compartment after the girl got down at Saharanpur.

◻️ The reverie of the narrator of the present story is mentioned here.

◻️The narrator was deeply engrossed in the lingering thought of the girl passenger's sweet voice, free and frank nature, interest in naturalistic beauty, the tantalising fragrance of her hair and above all of the possibility of her forgetting their brief encounter. The train gathered speed. The wheels started to perform their song and the carriage groaned and shook. The dejected narrator was by the window and tried to guess what was happening outside the window as being blind he couldn't see anything. To him such guessing could be a fascinating game to while away the time.All this was the stuff of his reverie. 

◻️The reverie was broken when the new passenger entered the compartment and remarked that he might prove to be disappointing to the narrator as he was not as attractive a travelling companion as the girl who had just departed. 

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