How would you interpret these two phrases? How would you interpret these two phrases in the last passage? 1. she is giving him a ride. Does it mean the wife was making fun of her husband? 2. putting up a good show. Does it mean to show off? Thank you. The excerpt is taken from the short story ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ written by Ernest Hemingway.The excerpt: “Here’s the lunch,” said Wilson (a white hunter). “You’re very merry, aren’t you?” “Why not? I didn’t come out here to be dull.” “Well, it hasn’t been dull,” Wilson said. He could see the boulders in the river and the high bank beyond with the trees and he remembered the morning. “Oh, no,” she (Francis Macomber’s wife) said. “It’s been charming. And tomorrow. You don’t know how I look forward to tomorrow.” “That’s eland he’s offering you,” Wilson said. “They’re the big cowy things that jump like hares, aren’t they?” “I suppose that describes them,” Wilson said. “It’s very good meat,” Macomber said. “Did you shoot it, Francis?” she asked. “Yes.” “They’re not dangerous, are they?” “Only if they fall on you,” Wilson told her. “I’m so glad.” “Why not let up on the bitchery just a little, Margot,” Macomber said, cutting the eland steak and putting some mashed potato, gravy and carrot on the down-turned fork that tined through the piece of meat. “I suppose I could,” she said, “since you put it so prettily.” “Tonight we’ll have champagne for the lion,” Wilson said. “It’s a bit too hot at noon.” “Oh, the lion,” Margot said. “I’d forgotten the lion!” So, Robert Wilson thought to himself, she is giving him a ride, isn’t she? Or do you suppose that’s her idea of putting up a good show? How should a woman act when she discovers her husband is a bloody coward? She’s damn cruel but they’re all cruel. They govern, of course, and to govern one has to be cruel sometimes. Still, I’ve seen enough of their damn terrorism.