The leaking carriage window
An original fiction passage set in the nineteenth century.
Rain came sharply through the cracked carriage window and darkened the cushion beside Clara's portfolio. She lifted the portfolio into the luggage net above the opposite seat and spread her folded travelling rug over it. Only then did she wipe the drops from her sleeve and return to her book.
Give two ways Clara protects the portfolio from the rain.
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.