Be off now, and change your dress before your aunt Elizabeth and your uncle Ben come. It will never do for them to find you in colours. (i) who speaks these lines to whom? (ii) why does she disapprove of the listener being in colour? (iii) why are Aunt Elizabeth and uncle Ben comming? (iv) bring out the irony in the above statement.

Dear student,

i) The given lines are spoken by Mrs. Amelia Slater to her daughter, Victoria.

ii) Mrs.Slater disapproved of seeing Victoria in colour as her aunt and uncle were going to pay a visit to them. Mrs.Slater didn't want her sister to point out that they were mourning grandfather's death and Victoria was wearing a colourful dress which was against custom!

[iii] The Jordan family was going to pay a visit to the Slater family because of the assumed death of Abel Merry weather.

[iv] The irony in the above statement was that Victoria, who was in colour, was actually the only one who was in mourning of her grandfather's death. All the other adults were actually present there in order to outshine each other and didn't care about the grandfather's death. They just wanted to know what inheritance had been left by their father for them.

Regards