2. Find in the text the English for the following Russian words and word combinations:

1. четкий

2. повлияло на вашу память

3. загорелый, в хорошей форме, изысканный

4. облегчить боль

5. выкинь это из головы!

6. договорились!

7. иметь предчувствие

8. несчастный, жалкий

9. опасаться худшего

10. виновники

11. значимость

12. выдумывать

3. Answer the following questions:

1. In what condition was Alan after the fall? How seriously was he injured?

2. What affected his memory? What did he remember? What dreams disturbed him?

3. Were Alan’s will and spirits affected by the accident? What were his intentions?

4. What did Alan and Kate speak about on the phone? Why did Alan pretend that he wanted to read to Kate something in the paper?

5. Whom did Alan find in Scilla’s bed-room? What were they doing?

6. What did Alan learn from questioning Henry? How important was this information?

4. Find in the text the following words and word combinations, translate them and use them while answering the questions:

unconscious

to give up the pretence

concussion

to sleep for a while

What happened was still a blank

to puzzle over the gap in my memory

to stitch up a cut

to exaggerate

to fear the worst

a quickly suppressed giggle

Hang on a minute!

the extension telephone

husky and whispering voice

Class ten (Chapter 13)

Chapter thirteen

Notes:

1. The three aspirins I had swallowed in place of breakfast had not come up to scratch. – Три таблетки аспирина, которые я проглотил вместо завтрака, вовсе не помогли.

2. Why on earth did he do that? – С чего это вдруг он сделал это?

3. nominee – покупатель по доверенности, подставное лицо

4. It sounds very fishy to me. – Это кажется мне очень подозрительным.

5. the electoral register – списки избирателей

6. Spill the beans, there’s a good chap. – Давай парень, выкладывай все, что знаешь.

7. Mr Alan has an unerring instinct for smelling out crooks. – У господина Алана просто нюх на жуликов и пройдох.

8. to take heed of the warning – чтобы я внял предупреждению

9. You tip Joe the wink to lose. – Вы намекаете Джо, что он должен проиграть.

10. He can offer better odds on it. – Он может предложить принять на нее ставки на самых соблазнительных условиях.

11. nee – (born) рожденный

12. camouflage – Только для прикрытия

13. Whoever put them on me – Тот, кто натравил их на меня

1. Explain the following phrases:

1. Lodge’s face when he saw me was a picture.

2. I told them how Kate and I had tracked down the horse-box, and that that particular line of enquiry was a dead end.

3. But I guessed that he was as addicted to detecting as an alcoholic to drink. He couldn’t help doing it.

4. He sold it for a large profit after the war, went to Brighton, and bought for next to nothing and old taxi business that had wilted from wartime restrictions and lack of petrol.

5. My son is Sherlock Holmes reincarnated.

6. Ex-Regimental-Major Thomkins made such serious inroads into the illicit profits of Marconi-cars, that as a racket it was more or less defunct.

7. It’s too much of a coincidence to have two businesses, both shady, one above the other, both with invisible and untraceable owners.

8. Presently Lodge said, ‘I can see why your father misses you as a fraud spotter.’