Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -“You must excuse my apron and negligee….” – Identify the prose piece from which the above mentioned line has been extracted. Who is the speaker of the quoted line? What is a negligee ? What was the speaker engaged in before arrival? What did the speaker offer the person addressed as ‘you’?
The above mentioned line has been extracted from Anton chekhov’s play The Proposal The speaker of the quoted line is Natalya Stepanovna. A negligee is a loose gown. Before arrival, the speaker, Natalya Stepanovna was engaged in shelling peas for drying. The speaker offered lunch to the person addressed as ‘you’ but the person, Lomov, rejetted her offer politely. So she asked him for smoke and gave him the matches.