Ответить на вопросы. 1. What were the symptoms of the boy's illness?2. Why did it seem to the father that the doctor knew all about influenza?3. What worried the boy? Since when? 4. Why did the prefer to stay awake. 5. What were the symptoms of the boy's nervous strain that the father took for the symptoms of his illness?

1. The boy looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move. He had got a headache and a fever. He was running a temperature. 2. It seemed to the father that the doctor knew all about influenza because he left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another a purgative, the third to overcome an acid condition. The germs of influenza can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. 3. He was worried as he had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning. 4. He preferred to stay awake as he was waiting for the medicine. 5. The boy was a little light-headed, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks flushed by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed.