question_answer

  He was a self-centered child and accepting the commercial traveller fiction, dismissed the subject from his mind and busied himself with things of more moment. (i)More moment here means ____ (ii)Explain ... 'accepting the commercial traveler fiction'. (iii)Which subject is regarded as trivial?

Answer:

                  (i) Here 'more moment' means importance. (ii) 'Accepting the commercial traveller fiction' means that Harold believed the story of Bill being a commercial traveller.