CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -’A Question of Trust’ is a very thrilling and interesting story written by the author Victor Canning. The story is full of paradoxes. Horace Danby had a good reputation in the society. He was about fifty and unmarried.

Detailed explanation-2: -Summary of A Question of Trust The author of this short story is Horace Danby. This story is about a thief who gets a taste of his own deeds.

Detailed explanation-3: -The theme of the Story The story ’A Question of Trust’ is based on the robbery committed in a house at Shot over Grange. Two professional thieves and burglars come face to face while on the same mission of robbing a safe in the house. Both of them made elaborate preparations to make the theft a complete success.

Detailed explanation-4: -The story, “A Question of Trust, ” written by Victor Canning revolves around the protagonist named Horace Danby. While discussing Horace’s character in the initial lines of the paragraph, the narrator states unequivocally that he is not a good, honest person, contrary to what people were thinking about him.

Detailed explanation-5: -Horace robbed one safe every year to finance his costly hobby. Horace had been studying the country house at Shotover Grange, whose owner normally lived in London, as he wanted to burgle the jewellery, worth about 15000 pounds, lying in the safe in this house. Horace entered the house when the servants were away.