All day at her labors (весь день в своих трудах) she had attuned herself to receive further communications (она настраивала себя на получение дополнительных сообщений/сигналов) as to what form the expected bounty would take (относительно формы, которую примет ожидаемое благо;
further ['fWDq], usual ['jHZuql], message ['mesIG]
All day at her labors she had attuned herself to receive further communications as to what form the expected bounty would take. When she arrived at the flat of Miss Pamela Penrose to cope with the usual mess of untidiness left by the struggling actress, a copy of the Evening Standard was lying on the floor, and as she glanced at it lines of black print conveyed the intelligence to her that the dogs were running at White City that evening. That was it! The message had been delivered and received. Thereafter there was nothing to do but to find the right dog, the right price, collect her winnings and be off to Paris.
Neither Mrs. Harris nor Mrs. Butterfield was a stranger to the paradise that was White City (ни миссис Харрис, ни миссис Баттерфилд не были чужаками/новичками в том раю, каким был Уайт-Сити), but that night the mise en sc`ene (но тем вечером мизансцена) that otherwise would have enthralled them (которая в других обстоятельствах привела бы их в восторг) — the oval track outlined in electric light (овальный трек, очерченный электрическими огнями), the rush and roar of the mechanical rabbit (стремительное движение и грохот механического зайца), the pulsating ribbon of the dogs streaming behind in its wake (пульсирующая лента собак =
roar [rL], bustling ['bAslIN], queue [kjH]
Neither Mrs. Harris nor Mrs. Butterfield was a stranger to the paradise that was White City, but that night the mise en sc`ene that otherwise would have enthralled them — the oval track outlined in electric light, the rush and roar of the mechanical rabbit, the pulsating ribbon of the dogs streaming behind in its wake, the bustling crowds in the betting queues and the packed stands — was no more than the means to an end. Mrs. Butterfield too, by this time, had caught the fever, and went waddling in Mrs. Harris' wake from paddock to stands and back again without protest.