Read the following extract from the story ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’. Answer the questions given.

A) The text in question introduces the reader to the story's plot.

Sherlock has just received that says a man with a mask will arrive at the house soon with an important case that implicates an important European family in scandal. Watson agrees to stay and meet the man with Holmes.

The two men are able to deduce, from the information on the letter, that the paper the letter was written on is from Egria, a country in Bohemia. Suddenly, the masked man walks into Holmes room. The man sits down and starts to tell Homes the facts of his case when Sherlock reveals the man's identify and asks the man to take off his mask. The man happens to be the hereditary king of Bohemia, when he was younger he was involved in an affair with an American born opera singer named Irene Adler.

B) The king is presented as anxious... almost desperate. He is a man who wishes to be married, but his engagement is threatened by Irene's declaration that she will make public a photograph from the time of their affair if he does so. The king wishes to keep the scandal from wreaking havok, and he is desperate that it not ruin his impending marriage.