1) [?] Voltaire’s timing was good for 2) [?] change. 3) [?] Queen Caroline loved poetry and Voltaire was welcomed into 4) [?] society. Mastering 5) [?] English language in 6) [?] mere six months, he made friends with 7) [?] fascinating and stimulating range of people, including 8) [?] Prime Minister, 9) [?] Sir Robert Walpole,10) [?] Lord Bolingbroke, 11) [?] poet Alexander Pope and 12) [?] playwright William Congreve. Most important of all, though, he came across 13) [?] work of two of 14) [?] great thinkers of 15) [?] 17th century: 16) [?] greatest natural scientist of them all, Isaac Newton and 17) [?] philosopher of freedom John Locke.


18) [?] Sir Christopher Wren, 19) [?] famed English architect of his time, designed 20) [?] St. Paul’s Cathedral in London and 21) [?] Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.


Just then 22) [?] door opened to reveal 23) [?] white-faced Sophie standing like 24) [?] frightened ghost in her long nightdress.


He was very fond of Midge. 25) [?] little Midge - that was how he thought of her.