What does 'his patience a sympathetic string' mean? Brief introduction of the content: Anahita, the wife, kept complaining her son's missing last night. Arshan, the husband, were searching in ditches last night, fearing his son was crashed by any cars or trucks alike. What does "his patience a sympathetic string' mean" in the following paragraphs: ‘And while you were at this Steiner School nightclub,’ Anahita interrupted, raising her hand, ‘free as a bird, your father was in the ditches!’ ‘No,’ Arshan said, his patience a sympathetic string. ‘I’m pretty sure the ditches came later, sweetheart. So, what happened at the club, that put you in jail?’

What does the last sentence mean? In the following paragragh describing an Indian house, what does the last sentence mean? Farzad pulled one half of the curtains aside, holding it back for me to pass. We walked on through a dark passageway and arrived at a set of folding doors. Farzad slid the panels back. I stepped through. The vast space beyond the corridor was so high that I could only vaguely make out the detail of its sunlit uppermost reaches, and the width clearly encompassed a far greater space than Farzad’s home alone. 1) Is 'The vast space beyond the corridor' the living room? 2) In 'its sunlit uppermost reaches' , does it mean the sun could reach into the house? 3) The paragragh is decribing the house of Farzad, why the 'width clearly encompassed a far greater space than Farzad’s home alone'?