Recognized as the best of the younger actresses. Throughout the war the
Theatre was very prosperous, and she profited by being seen in plays that had
Long runs. Salaries went up, and with Michael to advise her she was able to
Extort eighty pounds a week from reluctant managers. Michael came over to
England on his leaves and Julia was divinely happy. Though he was in no
More danger than if he had been sheep-farming in New Zealand, she acted as
Though the brief periods he spent with her were the last days the doomed man
Would ever enjoy on earth.
She treated him ( ) as though he had just come (
) from the horror of the trenches (
: ) and was tender, considerate, and unexacting (
, ).
It was just before the end of the war ( )
that she fell out of love with him ( ; to fall out of love with smb.
-).
She was pregnant at the time ( ). Michael had
judged it imprudent ( , ) to have
a baby just then ( ), but she was nearly thirty (
) and thought ( ) that if they were going to have one
at all ( // ) they ought to delay no
longer ( ); she was so well established on the
stage ( : ;
established , , ) that she could
afford ( ) not to appear for a few months (
/ / ), and with the possibility that Michael might be
killed at any moment ( ,
) it was true he said he was as safe as a house ( :
, // ; as safe as a
house , , ), he only said that
to reassure her ( , ), and even generals
were killed sometimes ( ) if she was to go on
living ( ) she must have a child by him
( ).
trench [trentS] unexacting ["AnIg'zxktIN] imprudent [Im'pru:d(q)nt]
She treated him as though he had just come from the horror of the trenches
And was tender, considerate, and unexacting.
It was just before the end of the war that she fell out of love with him.
