Comprehension:

1.        This saying means that a seemingly respectable person or family has some secrets concealed from strangers for many years. These secrets are always called as the skeleton.

2.        The dear old lady had poisoned every one of her five husbands in her youth.

3.        He writes detective stories and he becomes a successful writer of that.

Summary Writing:

The writer spent an uncomfortable weekend at his friend’s house. He was shown to the guestroom which was rarely used. Deciding to hang on his suit, he opened the cupboard door. He was petrified to see a skeleton dangling before his eyes. It looked as if it would leap out at him. He dashed downstairs to tell George about that skeleton. George smiling, replied without any panic that it was Sebastian which he used when he was a medical student.