Correct Answer: Mahendra told her, "I will be waiting for you at the theatre."

Solution : The correct choice is the fourth option .

In direct speech, the words of the speaker are directly quoted and put in quotation marks. When transforming indirect speech to direct speech, pronouns and tense forms are changed accordingly.

Narration Conversion:

• Told is the correct verb form to be used here.
• He is changed to I , as the words are directly quoted.
• Would is the past tense, and it will be changed to will in direct speech.
• Her (third-person pronoun) is changed to you (second-person pronoun) as per the rules of direct speech.
• The words of the speaker are enclosed in the inverted commas.

Therefore, the sentence in direct speech is: Mahendra told her, "I will be waiting for you at the theatre."