Round his neck, her cheek against his.
"Oh, it's so good to be home again," she sighed.
"You don't have to tell me that ( :
)," he said, not understanding ( ) that she referred to his arms
( : ) and not to his arrival (
: ).
"D'you still like me ( )?"
"Rather ()."
She kissed him fondly ( ).
"Oh, you don't know (, ) how I've missed you (
; to miss . , , )."
"I was an awful flop in America ( :
)," he said. "I didn't tell you in my letters (
/ / ), because I thought (, )
it would only worry you ( - :
). They thought me rotten ( , )."
"Michael ()," she cried ( ), as though she could not believe
him ( : ).
"The fact is ( : , ), I suppose ( ), I'm too English
( ). They don't want me another year (
: ). I didn't think they did (
, : ), but just as a matter of form ( ,
) I asked them ( - / /) if they were going to exercise
their option (
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: ) and they said no (
), not at any price ( )."
refer [rI'fq:] fondly ['fOndlI] option ['OpS(q)n]
"You don't have to tell me that," he said, not understanding that she referred
To his arms and not to his arrival.
"D'you still like me?"
"Rather."
She kissed him fondly.
"Oh, you don't know how I've missed you."
"I was an awful flop in America," he said. "I didn't tell you in my letters,
because I thought it would only worry you. They thought me rotten."
"Michael," she cried, as though she could not believe him.
"The fact is, I suppose, I'm too English. They don't want me another year. I
didn't think they did, but just as a matter of form I asked them if they were
going to exercise their option and they said no, not at any price."
Julia was silent ( ; silent , ). She
looked deeply concerned ( ), but her heart
was beating with exultation ( : ).
"I honestly don't care (, , ), you know ( ).
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I didn't like America ( ). It's a smack in the eye of
course (, ; a smack in the eye ,
, ), it's no good denying that ( ), but
the only thing ( / /) is to grin and bear it (
; to grin and bear it
, ). If you only knew (
) the people one has to deal with (
; to deal with , -)! Why,
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compared with some of them (, ; to
compare , ), Jimmie Langton's a great gentleman
( ). Even if they had wanted me to
stay ( , ) I should have refused (
)."
Though he put a brave face on it ( ; put a brave face on
, ), Julia felt ( ) that he was
deeply mortified ( ). He must have had to put up (
; to put up with , ) with a
good deal of unpleasantness ( ). She hated him
to have been made unhappy ( , ; to
hate , , -),
but, oh, she was so relieved (, , ; to relieve
, , ).
concerned [kqn'sq:nd] deny [dI'naI] refused [rI'fju:zd] mortify ['mO:tIfaI]
