Characters
Lord Murchison's political and religious beliefes
He was a stout Tory and believed in the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) and the House of Peer
The city where the Narrator and Lord Murchison reunite
Paris (Café de la Paix).
Lady Alroy tells Gerald to write to this library instead of her home
Whittaker’s Library
Woman are meant to be_____,not to be understood".
Loved
The name of the street where the secret lodging was located
Cumnor Street.
He is a "stout Tory"who values the truth above all.
Lord Murchison (Gerald).
The country Lord Murchison travels to after his big fight with Lady Alroy
Norway
The color of the carriage(brougham)Lady Alroy was first seen in
Yellow
The narrator compares Lady Alroy to this famous Italian painting.
The Gioconda (Mona Lisa).
The weekly rent Lady Alroy paid just to sit in the room
Three guineas.
She is described as a "Gioconda in sables" with a mania for secrecy
Lady Alroy.
The cause of Lady Alroy's sudden death
A chill / lung congestion (after the Opera).
The object Murchison finds on the doorstep to prove she was there
A handkerchief.
Why it is ironic to call Lady Alroy a "Sphinx."
A Sphinx is famous for riddles/secrets, but she had none.
What Lady Alroy actually did inside the rented room.
Read books and drank tea (alone)
He believes that Lady Alroy is simply a "Sphinx without s secret"
The Narrator.
Where Murchison and the Narrator first met tenyears ago
Oxford
The name Lady Alroy used at the Library(her alias.)
Mrs. Knox.
The meaning of the title "A Sphinx Without a Secret."
She looked deep and mysterious, but there was no real secret.
The reason the landlady let Murchison see the rooms after she died.
She owed rent (three months).
The "scientific bore"at the dinner party talked about this gorup of people
Widows
The person Murchison traveld with to Norway
Alan Colville. (He went to Norway with him after the fight).
The description of the woman's beauty in thepotography
It was psychological beauty, not plastic beauty (moulded out of many mysteries).
The reason Murchison's friends at Oxford liked him.
They admired him for his frankness (always speaking the truth), even if they joked about it.
The exact item Murchison gave the landlady at the end.
A sovereign (a gold coin). He gave it to her after hearing the truth.