3. Read the extracts given below and briefly answer the questions that follow each. (A) "What does it mean ?" he thundered The stranger made no attempt to dissimulate. He saw at once that the splendour had come to an end. "It is not my fault, sir," he said. " I never pretended to be anything but a poor trader, and I pleaded and begged to be allowed to stay in the forge. But no harm has been done. At worst I can put on my rags gain and go away".