Speaker's Perspectives on Love and Trust

The transcript features a discussion among characters about love, beauty, and marriage intentions. It explores the worthiness of a lady named Hero and the reluctance of a character, Benedict, to marry. Despite the pressures and opinions of others, Benedict resolves to remain a bachelor, expressing his views on love and beauty. The conversation concludes with a plan to attend a supper.

How does the speaker describe the lady he sees?

• As someone he cannot see without spectacles

• As the sweetest lady he has ever seen

• As less beautiful than her cousin

• As someone he intends to marry

What does the speaker compare the lady's beauty to?

• The last of December

• A winter's night

• The first of May

• A summer's day

What does the speaker say about his ability to see?

• He is blind

• He sees only what he wants

• He needs spectacles

• He can see without spectacles

What is the speaker's initial stance on marriage?

• He is already married

• He is reluctant to marry

• He is eager to marry

• He is indifferent to marriage

What does the speaker acknowledge about Hero?

• She is already married

• She is not worthy

• She is not interested in him

• She is worthy of love

What does the speaker say about his trust in himself?

• He trusts others more

• He trusts himself completely

• He has no trust in himself

• He would scarcely trust himself

How does the speaker feel about the concept of love?

• He is confused by it

• He is indifferent to it

• He is resistant to it

• He is eager to embrace it

What does the speaker say about dying for his opinion?

• He is indifferent to it

• He would never express it

• He would die for it at the stake

• He would change it easily

What does the speaker express gratitude for?

• Being raised by a woman

• His wealth

• His friends

• His education

What does the speaker say about hanging his bugle?

• He will hang it visibly

• He will hang it in an invisible place

• He will never hang it

• He will give it away