Adverbs

• 1) precisely

  But that is precisely what they already know.

• 2) wherever

  wherever you look.

• 3) sudden

  Well, you see, I had a turn, like a burst ofsickness, just sudden-like.

• 4) somehow

  She writes as if, somehow, it reflects badly on Mary.

• 5) somewhere

  Poor Edith. I hope there's a right tree for her somewhere.

• 6) obviously

  Obviously, it's an act offaith at this stage.

• 7) apparently

  Apparently, the word is going round London that Evelyn Napier

• 8) possibly

  You, me, Lady Mary and possibly Daisy.

• 9) certainly

  Certainly not. I monopolised you at dinner. I'd no right to any more ofyour time.

• 10) nearly

  but I think we're nearly there.

• 11) exactly

  Exactly!

• 12) earlier

  Oh! Just a minute. I don't like to put it on earlier.

• 13) alone

  Poor Aunt Rosamond. All alone in that big house.

• 14) particularly

  Well, it seems he is particularly fond of a certain new pudding.

• 15) perhaps

  Perhaps Mr Patrick did love her back, he just couldn't say it.

• 16) sometimes

  Sometimes we're not at liberty to speak.

• 17) instead

  and instead they're at each other's throats from dawn till dusk.

• 18) forward

  I'm rather looking forward to the flower show tomorrow.

• 19) quite

  Quite right.

• 20) recently

  Only she's been talking recently as if she had ideas about Mr Pamuk's death.

• 21) round

  Branson can't have brought it round so quickly.

• 22) late

  You're late this morning.

• 23) almost

  I could almost manage for a long time,