CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Ausable was an intelligent spy. When he found Max waiting for him in his room, he made a story of a balcony under his window. He convinced Max about the balcony. And thus, when someone knocked at the door, Max fearing it to be the police, jumped out of the window and died.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ausable cooked up a story that the balcony below his room had become a big nuisance. It was the second time that someone had got into his room through it. Actually, he wanted to confuse Max and make him jump out of the window to get rid of him. Q.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ausable cocked-up a story. He told Max that there was a balcony just below his window. He told him that the balcony was a part of the next room. When the waiter knocked at the door, Ausable told Max that it would be the police.

Detailed explanation-4: -Explanation: Ausable framed the story of the balcony to save himself and his accomplice Fowler and also to save that secret and most important document from Max.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer: Ausable cooked up a false story to entrap crafty Max. He told Max that the balcony below his window had become a big nuisance. It was the second time in a month that somebody got into his room through the balcony.