For a moment, in extenuation, Mrs. Harris was tempted to reveal where she was off to and why — and resisted. The love affair between herself and the Dior dress was private. Instead she said soothingly: "Now, now, ducks, no need for you to get shirty. Me friend Mrs. Butterfield will look in on you on her way home tomorrow and give the place a good tidying up.
Your producer friend won't know the difference. Well, dearie, 'ere's 'oping 'e gives you a good job," she concluded cheerily, and left Miss Penrose glowering and sulking.
All thoughts of the actress (все мысли об актрисе), and for that matter all of her meandering back into the past (и, по правде говоря, все ее блуждания в прошлом: «в прошлое»;
meandering [mI'xndqrIN], head [hed], squeal [skwJl]
All thoughts of the actress, and for that matter all of her meandering back into the past, were driven out of Mrs. Harris' head when with a jerk and a squeal of brakes the cab came to a halt at what must be her destination.
The great gray building (огромное серое здание) that is the House of Christian Dior (т.е. Дом Кристиана Диора) occupies an entire corner of the spacious Avenue Montaigne (занимает весь угол широкой Авеню Монтень) leading off the Rond-Point of the Champs-Elysees (начинающуюся с круглой площади Елисейских Полей). It has two entrances (оно имеет два входа), one off the avenue proper which leads through the Boutique (один со стороны непосредственно авеню, который ведет через бутик), where knick-knacks and accessories are sold (где продаются безделушки и аксессуары) at prices ranging from five to several hundreds of dollars (по ценам в пределах от пяти до нескольких сотен долларов), and another more demure and exclusive one (и другой, более сдержанный и производящий впечатление чего-то недоступного;
spacious ['speISqs], demure [dI'mjuq], exclusive [Iks'klHsIv]
The great gray building that is the House of Christian Dior occupies an entire corner of the spacious Avenue Montaigne leading off the Rond-Point of the Champs-Elysees. It has two entrances, one off the avenue proper which leads through the Boutique, where knick-knacks and accessories are sold at prices ranging from five to several hundreds of dollars, and another more demure and exclusive one.
The cab driver chose to deposit Mrs. Harris at the latter (водитель такси решил высадить миссис Харрис у последнего;
chose [Cquz], genuinely ['GenjuInlI], clientele ["klJRn'tel]