1) Why did the author go to the dining-car?

2) Describe the man who was sitting opposite him.

3) Why did the author feel ill at ease?

4) What was it that struck the author in the manner his companion was eating?

5) What did the young man suf fer from when he was a student?

6) What did he read about human defence mechanisms in one of the books on psychology?

7) What idea occurred to him?

8) What was the effect of his experiment?

9) How did the young man explain to the author his careful manner of eating?

Retell the text «The Beard»  by G. Clark

and  learn by heart the word combinations