M. Fauvel looked distinguished and handsome in dinner jacket (мсье Фовель выглядел изящным/безупречным и статным в смокинге;
peculiar [pI'kju:ljq], lapel [lq'pel], exquisite ['ekskwIzIt], daringly ['deqrINlI]
And yet what should have been the happiest of times for the three started out as an evening of peculiar and penetrating sadness.
M. Fauvel looked distinguished and handsome in dinner jacket with the ribbon of the military medal he had won in his lapel. Natasha had never looked more ravishing, in an evening dress of pink, gray and black, cut to show off her sweet shoulders and exquisite back. Mrs. Harris came as she was except for a fresh, somewhat daringly peek-a-boo lace blouse she had bought with some of her remaining British pounds.
Her sadness was only an overlay (ее грусть лишь маскировала: «была только покрывалом») on the delight and excitement of the place (восторг и волнение по поводу места) and the hour (и часа) and the most thrilling thing of all that was to happen tomorrow (и самого волнующего из всего этого — того, что должно было случиться завтра). It was due to the fact that all good things must come to an end (это было из-за того, что все хорошее должно заканчиваться) and that she must be leaving these people (и что она должна будет покинуть этих людей) of whom in a short time she had grown so extraordinarily fond (которых она за короткое время так полюбила;
overlay [quvq'leI], delight [dI'laIt], excitement [Ik'saItmqnt]
Her sadness was only an overlay on the delight and excitement of the place and the hour and the most thrilling thing of all that was to happen tomorrow. It was due to the fact that all good things must come to an end and that she must be leaving these people of whom in a short time she had grown so extraordinarily fond.
But the unhappiness that gripped M. Fauvel and Mlle. Petitpierre (но грусть, которая охватила мсье Фовеля и м-ль Петипьер) was of heavier (была более тяжелой), gloomier (более мрачной) and thicker stuff (и более густой материи;
conclusion [kqn'klu:Zqn], once [wAns], idyll ['IdIl]
But the unhappiness that gripped M. Fauvel and Mlle. Petitpierre was of heavier, gloomier and thicker stuff. Each had reached the conclusion that once Mrs. Harris departed, this idyll which had brought them together and thrown them for a week into one another's company would be at an end.