Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Natalya : No, you’re simply joking, or making fun of me. What a surprise! We’ve had the land for nearly three hundred years, and then we’re suddenly told that it isn’t ours! Ivan Vassilevitch, I can hardly believe my own ears. These Meadows aren’t worth much to me. They only come to five dessiatins, and are worth perhaps 300 roubles, but I can’t stand unfairness. Say what you will, I can’t stand unfairness.

1. What surprises the speaker?
2. What does she find ‘unfair’?
3. Find a word in the passage that means opposite to ‘gradually’.