Footprints on the Steps
The story starts with a puzzle, not a person.
↳ The title is literal: footprints, and no feet above them.
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Footprints without Feet · Class 10 English · Footprints Without Feet
English 3 topics 135 leveled MCQs 60 flashcards 4 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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A Footmark From Nowhere
Then it happens in front of them.
↳ The trail ends because the mud wears off — not because the man does.
Griffin's Experiments
How do you make a body invisible?
↳ Not magic. Drugs, a body, and a result he cannot reverse.
The Wrong Time of Year
The season decides everything.
↳ Everything in this section is an attempt to have both at once.
Inside the London Store
A shopping spree with the doors locked.
↳ Warm for the first time — and instantly identifiable.
Cold Meat, Wine and Quilts
Then supper.
↳ An invisible man's first act of freedom is a very ordinary comfort.
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1
Footprints From Nowhere: the Discovery, and the Lawless Man
Two boys in London follow the muddy prints of bare feet that appear out of empty air. The explanation is Griffin, a brilliant scientist who has swallowed rare drugs and made his body as transparent as glass — and who is,…
- Two boys stop in surprise at the fresh muddy prints of a pair of bare feet on the steps of a house in central London, and wonder where the m…
- As they look, a fresh footmark appears out of nowhere — and then another, and another, coming down the steps and off along the street. They…
- The explanation, the story says, is simple: the boys had been following a scientist who had just worked out how to make the human body trans…
~26 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
A Winter With No Clothes: the Store, Drury Lane, and Iping
Midwinter London is no place to be naked, so Griffin shuts himself into a big store at closing time and helps himself to clothes, food and wine. He oversleeps, is chased out of his new clothes, and rebuilds himself at a…
- Griffin got away from the boys easily enough, but his troubles were only beginning: he had chosen a bad time of year to wander about London…
- Rather than walk the streets he slipped into a big London store for warmth, and once the doors were shut at closing time he could clothe and…
- He tore open boxes and packaging and helped himself to warm clothing, adding shoes, an overcoat and a broad-brimmed hat — which turned him i…
~28 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Iping: Furniture in Revolt, and a Headless Man
At Mrs Hall's inn the strange guest is excused as an eccentric scientist until his money runs out. Then a clergyman is robbed by an empty room, a chair charges its own landlady, and a furious Griffin throws off bandages,…
- A stranger arriving at a village inn in winter was unusual in itself, and one of such uncommon appearance set every tongue in Iping wagging.…
- Griffin did not want to talk. He told her he had come to Iping for solitude, did not wish to be disturbed in his work, and that an accident…
- The stolen money soon ran out. Griffin had to admit he had no ready cash, and pretended that a cheque was expected at any moment.
~28 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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135 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
What did the two boys find at the beginning of the story?
Beginner
A A pair of shoes abandoned in the middle of the street
B The fresh muddy prints of bare feet on the steps of a London house
C A man lying unconscious on a doorstep
D A trail of blood leading away from a house
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The fresh muddy prints of bare feet on the steps of a London house
They wondered what a barefooted man was doing there, and where he had gone.
What made the sight remarkable?
Intermediate
A The prints led straight up the wall of the house
B The footprints belonged to an animal, not a man
C A fresh footmark appeared out of empty air in front of them
D The prints vanished as soon as they were touched
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A fresh footmark appeared out of empty air in front of them
More followed, one after another, down the steps and along the street.
Why did the trail of footprints end?
Advanced
A He climbed into a carriage and drove off
B It began to rain and washed the prints away
C The mud on his feet wore away, so the impressions grew fainter and vanished
D He put on a pair of shoes he had stolen
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The mud on his feet wore away, so the impressions grew fainter and vanished
Nothing had happened to the man; only to the mud.
Whom had the boys been following?
Beginner
A A scientist who had discovered how to make the body transparent
B A thief escaping from a house he had robbed
C A man who had lost his shoes in an accident
D A beggar who slept on the steps at night
Show answer & explanation
A scientist who had discovered how to make the body transparent
The explanation, the story says, was really simple enough.
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