Don't use the stairs

An old woman lived alone in her house, because her husband was dead.

She fell down the stairs and hurt her left leg very badly. She telephoned her sister, and her sister came to her house and took her to the doctor in her car.

The doctor cleaned the leg and then he bandaged it. After that, he said to the old woman, 'Now, Mrs. Grace, this leg's going to be bad for a long time. Don't run up and down the stairs in your house for a few weeks.'

Mrs. Grace visited the doctor every week for about a month, and then he said, 'Your leg's quite well again, Mrs. Grace.'

'That's very good,' said the old woman happily. 'I hated climbing up and down that drainpipe to my bedroom every day.'

1. Did Mrs. Grace live with her husband in her house?

2. Why?

3. How did she hurt her leg?

4. Did she drive herself to the hospital?

5. What did the doctor say to her?

6. Did Mrs. Grace visit him every week after that?

7. What did he say after a month?

8. And what did Mrs. Grace answer?