Insert Past Indefinite or Past Perfect

1. We hardly (leave) town, when it (begin) to rain. 2. The moon (not / rise). There was nothing to dispel the dark of the night. 3. On glancing at the address, he observed that it contained no name. The stranger (not / go) far, so he followed him to ask it. 4. When at his house, they (tell) me that he (leave) an hour ago. 5. No sooner he (take) a drink himself, than Mrs Fettle (look) in. 6. When I (come) to see my friend, I (find) him lying in bed. He (look) very pale as he (be) seriously ill for a whole month. 7. He hardly (light) another cigarette, when the general (come) into the courtyard. 8. Gemma went slowly down the stairs, Martini following in silence. She (grow) to look ten years older in these few days, and her hair (become) gray. 9. Presently the sounds of voices and footsteps approaching along the terrace roused her from the dreamy state into which she (fall). 10. She was a woman of nearly fifty who (be) obviously pretty once. 11. Moreover, to him (the doctor) the affair was the commonplace; it was just a hysterical woman who (quarrel) with her friend and (take) poison. 12. I (leave) home at 8 o'clock, but I (not / go) far when I (remember) that I (forget) to lock my door. 13. When Alison (disappear) the first strains of the orchestra came stealing out to me from inside the hall. 14. Scarcely I (close) the door when a gust of wind (open) it again.