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 (, :
) I think it's a bit of all right ( , ; 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 (
; to spare . )
she sat down at her desk ( // ) and in her straggling
bold hand wrote to Mr. Thomas Fennell ( :
) a gushing note of
thanks for his beautiful flowers ( :
; to gush
, ).
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
Gushing note of thanks for his beautiful flowers.
She was naturally polite ( ) and it was, besides, a
principle with her (, , ) to answer all fan
letters ( // ). That was how she kept in
touch with her public ( ).
Having addressed the envelope ( ) she threw the card in the
wastepaper basket ( ; wastepaper
|
|
|
, ) and was ready to slip into her first act dress (
: ). The call-
boy (, ) came round knocking at the
dressing-room doors ( -: , ).
"Beginners, please ( : ,
)."
Those words ( ), though heaven only knew how often she had heard them
( , ), still gave her a
thrill ( ; thrill , ,
). They braced her like a tonic (
). Life acquired significance (
). She was about to step from the world of make-believe (
; to be about to do smth. ,
-) into the world of reality ( ).
principle ['prInsIp(q)l] envelope ['envqlqVp] wastepaper ["weIst'peIpq]
significance [sIg'nIfIkqns]
She was naturally polite and it was, besides, a principle with her to answer all
