Dolly always sent her a huge basket on her first nights, and on the hundredth

Night, and the two hundredth if there was one, and in between, whenever she

Ordered flowers for her own house, had some sent to Julia.

"No, miss."

"Lord Charles?"

Lord Charles Tamerley was the oldest and the most constant of Julia's

Admirers, and when he passed a florist's he was very apt to drop in and order

Some roses for her.

"Here's the card," said Evie.

Julia looked at it. Mr. Thomas Fennell. Tavistock Square. "What a place to

live. Who the hell d'you suppose he is, Evie?"

"Some feller knocked all of a heap by your fatal beauty (некий парень

ошеломленной вашей роковой: «фатальной» красотой; to knock all of a heap

— поразить, привести в крайнее изумление), I expect (я так думаю)."

"They must have cost all of a pound (они должно быть стоят целый фунт).

Tavistock Square doesn't look very prosperous to me (а Тэвисток-сквер не

кажется мне таким уж процветающим /районом/). For all you know (не

исключено; for all I know — может быть, почем знать) he may have gone

without his dinner for a week (может быть он целую неделю провел без обеда)

to buy them (/только чтобы/ купить их)."

"I don't think (не думаю)."

Julia plastered her face with grease paint (Джулия намазала лицо гримом; grease

— жир, смазка; paint — краска, румяна) .

"You're so damned unromantic, Evie (ты так чертовски неромантична, Эви).

Just because I'm not a chorus girl (просто из-за того, что я не какая-нибудь

хористка; chorus — хор, хоровая группа) you can't understand (ты не можешь

поверить: «понять») why anyone should send me flowers (почему кому-нибудь

не отправить мне цветы). And God knows (и Бог знает), I've got better legs than

most of them (что у меня ноги получше, чем у большинства из них)."

"You and your legs (вы со своими ногами: «и ваши ноги»)," said Evie.

feller ['felq] square [skweq] prosperous ['prOsp(q)rqs]

"Some feller knocked all of a heap by your fatal beauty, I expect."

"They must have cost all of a pound. Tavistock Square doesn't look very

Prosperous to me. For all you know he may have gone without his dinner for a

week to buy them."

"I don't think."

Julia plastered her face with grease paint.

"You're so damned unromantic, Evie. Just because I'm not a chorus girl you

Can't understand why anyone should send me flowers. And God knows, I've

got better legs than most of them."

"You and your legs," said Evie.

"Well, I don't mind telling you (ну, так я скажу тебе: «я не считаю зазорным

сказать тебе») I think it's a bit of all right (я думаю, что это здорово; a bit of all

right — хорошо, недурно) having an unknown young man (иметь незнакомого

молодого человека) sending me flowers at my time of life (посылающего мне

цветы, в моем-то возрасте: «в мое время жизни»). I mean it just shows you (я

имею в виду, что это доказывает тебе /что я еще ничего/)."

" If he saw you now 'e wouldn't (если бы он видел вас сейчас, то не /слал бы/),

not if I know anything about men (не /слал бы/, если я знаю что-нибудь о

мужчинах)."

"Go to hell (иди к черту)," said Julia.

But when she was made up to her satisfaction (но, когда она наложила грим к

своему удовлетворению), and Evie had put on her stockings and her shoes (и

Эви одела ей колготки и туфли) having a few minutes still to spare (у нее

оставалось еще несколько свободных минут; to spare — зд. иметь в избытке)

she sat down at her desk (она села к /ее/ рабочему столу) and in her straggling

bold hand wrote to Mr. Thomas Fennell (и своим размашистым: «широким»

четким почерком написала мистеру Томасу Феннеллу) a gushing note of

thanks for his beautiful flowers (записку с многочисленными:

«преувеличенными» благодарностями за его прекрасные цветы; to gush —

хлынуть, литься потоком).

stocking ['stOkIN] spare [speq] straggling ['strxglIN]

"Well, I don't mind telling you I think it's a bit of all right having an

Unknown young man sending me flowers at my time of life. I mean it just

shows you."

"If he saw you now 'e wouldn't, not if I know anything about men."

"Go to hell," said Julia.

But when she was made up to her satisfaction, and Evie had put on her

Stockings and her shoes, having a few minutes still to spare she sat down at

Her desk and in her straggling bold hand wrote to Mr. Thomas Fennell a