Английский с Уилки Коллинзом. Женщина из сна

She laughed her bitter laugh (она рассмеялась горьким смехом), and pointed to the stone quarry (и указала на каменоломню). “There is my inn for tonight (вот моя гостиница на сегодня; tonight – сегодня вечером, сегодня ночью),” she said. “When I got tired of walking about, I rested there (когда я уставала прогуливаться, я отдыхала там; tired – усталый, уставший).”

 “Kindness has a wonderful effect on women, and dogs, and other domestic animals. It is only men who are superior to kindness. Make your mind easy – I promise to take as much care of myself as if I was the happiest woman living! Don’t let me keep you here, out of your bed. Which way are you going?”

Miserable wretch that I was, I had forgotten my mother – with the medicine in my hand! “I am going home,” I said. “Where are you staying? At the inn?”

She laughed her bitter laugh, and pointed to the stone quarry. “There is my inn for tonight,” she said. “When I got tired of walking about, I rested there.”

We walked on together, on my way home (мы пошли дальше вместе, в сторону моего дома). I took the liberty of asking her if she had any friends (я осмелился спросить, есть ли у нее друзья; to take the liberty of doing smth. – позволить себе/осмелиться сделать что-л.; liberty – свобода; вольность, дерзость).

“I thought I had one friend left (я думала, что у меня остался один друг),” she said, “or you would never have met me in this place (иначе вы никогда бы не встретили меня в этом месте; to meet). It turns out I was wrong (оказывается, я ошибалась; wrong – неправильный, неверный; ошибочный). My friend’s door was closed in my face some hours since (дверь моего друга захлопнулась прямо перед моим носом: «мне в лицо» несколько часов назад; since – с тех пор; тому назад); my friend’s servants threatened me with the police (слуги моего друга угрожали мне полицией). I had nowhere else to go (мне больше некуда было идти), after trying my luck in your neighborhood (после того, как я попытала счастья в этой округе; neighborhood – соседство, близость; округа); and nothing left but my two-shilling piece and these rags on my back (и ничего у меня не осталось, кроме двух шиллингов и этих лохмотьев на мне: «на спине»; rag – лоскут, тряпка; rags – лохмотья, тряпье). What respectable innkeeper would take me into his house (какой приличный хозяин гостиницы впустит меня к себе в дом)?

 We walked on together, on my way home. I took the liberty of asking her if she had any friends.

“I thought I had one friend left,” she said, “or you would never have met me in this place. It turns out I was wrong. My friend’s door was closed in my face some hours since; my friend’s servants threatened me with the police. I had nowhere else to go, after trying my luck in your neighborhood; and nothing left but my two-shilling piece and these rags on my back. What respectable innkeeper would take me into his house?