"Damn (), my hot water bottle's ( ; bottle ) nearly stone
cold (, // )."
She looked at the clock on the chimney-piece (
). It was no wonder ( ). It must have been there
an hour (, , ). She had no notion (
; to have no notion ) that she had stayed so long
( ) in Michael's room ( ), looking
at those photographs ( ) and idly thinking of the
past ( ).
"Forty-six ( ). Forty-six. Forty-six. I shall retire when I'm sixty (
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, ). At fifty-eight South Africa and
Australia ( // ).
Michael says we can clean up there ( ,
; to clean up . -, ,
). Twenty thousand pounds ( ).
I can play all my old parts ( ). Of course
even at sixty (, ) I could play women of forty-five (
). But what about parts (
)? Those bloody dramatists ( )."
chimney-piece ['tSImnIpi:s] Australia [O:'streIlIq] dramatist ['drxmqtIst]
"Damn, my hot water bottle's nearly stone cold."
She looked at the clock on the chimney-piece. It was no wonder. It must have
been there an hour. She had no notion that she had stayed so long in Michael's
Room, looking at those photographs and idly thinking of the past.
"Forty-six. Forty-six. Forty-six. I shall retire when I'm sixty. At fifty-eight
South Africa and Australia. Michael says we can clean up there. Twenty
Thousand pounds. I can play all my old parts. Of course even at sixty I could
play women of forty-five. But what about parts? Those bloody dramatists."
Trying to remember any plays ( : ) in
which there was a first-rate part for a woman of five-and-forty (
) she fell asleep (
). She slept soundly ( ) till Evie came to awake her (
, , ) because the masseuse was
there ( : ). Evie brought her the
evening paper ( ), and Julia, stripped (
, : ), while the masseuse rubbed her long slim legs (
: 堠 ) and her
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belly ( ), putting on her spectacles ( ), read the same
theatrical intelligence ( ; intelligence
, ; , ) she had read that morning (
), the gossip column ( : )
and the woman's page ( ). Presently Michael came in (
) and sat on her bed ( ). He often
came at that hour ( : ) to have a little
chat with her ( ).
"Well, what was his name (, : )?" asked Julia
( ).
"Whose name (: )?"
"The boy who came to lunch ( , )?"
"I haven't a notion ( ). I drove him back to the theatre (
). I never gave him another thought (
; not to give another thought -,
)."
masseuse [mx'sq:z] spectacles ['spektqk(q)lz] intelligence [In'telIdZ(q)ns]
Trying to remember any plays in which there was a first-rate part for a
Woman of five-and-forty she fell asleep. She slept soundly till Evie came to
