“Have you children…” she began, and then, seeing they were curiously quiet, went on more slowly, “seen anyone lurking around the verandah?” (i) What do you think Rukku Manni really wanted to ask? (ii) Why did she change her question? (iii) What did she think had happened?

(i) Rukku Manni actually wanted to ask the children if they had seen the music master’s slippers.
(ii) Rukku Manni changed her question because she noticed that the children were curiously quiet and she suspected that they must have done something with the chappals.
(iii) She thought that the children had given the music mater’s chappals to that old beggar.

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