It … Sunday evening.
Everybody looked tired and wanted to go … home.
Mr. Candy locked the door and … outside.
The weather … fine.
… sun was shining brightly in the cloudless sky.
He decided to go … home on foot.
The house he lived in was not far …and soon he was there.
… door was blocked by the police.
No matter how… , he couldn’t get in.
It wasn’t really funny because Mr. Candy … a date that night.
He felt … bit nervous.
Then he suddenly … to see his father.
His father calmed him … .
Mr. Candy realized that everything that … wasn’t really important.
“Things … happen”, he thought.
When he … next morning, he felt as good as never.
He made up his mind to start a new… .
Mr. Candy was sure that his life … change greatly soon.
An interesting story happened … my friends last year.
… painting disappeared from my friends’ house.
Let me explain how the situation … .
Somebody stole the picture, that ... in town the day before.
It was … heavy to hang on the wall and was left on the floor of the hall.
… wanted to go to the restaurant, so all stayed to have dinner at home.
The dinner smelled … good.
All Jim … that day was a sandwich.
“What do you think … your new painting?” – asked Bob.
“Oh, it is extremely expensive and beautiful”, … Jim.
After dinner he wanted … the painting but found nothing in the hall.
We didn’t believe him at first, but … he said was quite true.
The sudden noise… .
It was Rachel … arrived.
Why did she always … to see Jim at the worst possible moment?
… at the fact that the painting had disappeared, Rachel couldn’t say a word.
The thief was thought to have escaped by climbing … the wall.
In the morning Rachel persuaded me to play … tennis.
The match was abandoned after… .
Nobody felt … after what had happened.
39. The next day I … to a woman outside the house.
I … the woman’s voice at once – no doubt, it was Rachel.
I was about to … my chair during the talk.
Rachel … the painting and was ready to sell it at a fabulous price.
When I told everybody about it, she … a terrible look as if she wanted to kill me at the moment.
“Sorry, I meant to tell you that I … take the painting for a while, but I forgot.”
So stupid … we heard that we were shocked.
This was the first time Jim … her real nature.
She … out of the house and disappeared in the wood.
By the time we got to Rachel’s hotel, she … .
We couldn’t …how well she managed to get off with the punishment.
Suffice it to say that she never … and returned the painting.
