The leaking window
An original fiction passage set in the nineteenth century.
Rainwater was spreading across the museum gallery floor, towards two piles of catalogues. Clara lifted the catalogues onto a chair and slid a brass bowl beneath the steady drip. A flash of lightning revealed a thin crack running across the window above her. She summoned the porter, then stood in the doorway to prevent visitors entering the gallery.
Give two things Clara does before the flash of lightning.
456 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE English Language 1.3 Content: prose fiction study requirements, covering 1.3.1 Read challenging prose fiction for the unseen 19th-century extract. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.