3. Answer the following questions:

1. What telephone call did Alan get on Saturday morning? In what way was the warning given?

2. Why did Alan go to Briton instead of going straight to Kate’s place? What did he find there?

3. What kind of house did Kate live in?

4. What impression did Aunt Deb make on Alan? Describe her.

5. Why was Kate apologetic about her aunt?

6. What were Aunt Deb’s views on upbringing girls and Kate in particular?

7. What impression did Uncle George make on Alan? Describe him.

8. Why didn’t Alan tell them the real truth about his father and their business?

9. In what way did Uncle George spend most of his time? What was his latest interest in?

10. How did Alan and Kate spend the afternoon?

11. What did they find out about the owners of the horse-box, about Clifford Tudor and the Marconi-car radio taxi cabs?

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

to ignore the warning

husky whispering voice

I can’t trace it

to pick up/to put down the receiver

to reconnoiter

to alarm someone

the train was due to leave

air of solid serenity

she sounded anxious and apologetic

to approve of her new interest

an undesirable alliance

primitive and barbaric peoples

inside glass cases

at a time

cardboard folders with pale blue stick-on labels

convertible

enjoying his one carefree nap

to hire a horse-box

I’m rather attached to it (tie)

the remotest connection with

the most decisive move

Class seven (Chapter 9)

Chapter nine

Notes:

1. a retired sergeant-major – старшина в отставке

2. a bull-terrier – бультерьер

3. an Alsatian dog – Восточноевропейская овчарка

4. the underlying edginess of the innkeeper – скрытая настороженность хозяина гостиницы

5. Suddenly out of nowhere there floated into my mind a peach of an idea. – Неожиданно в голове мелькнула великолепная мысль

6. I struck oil with a vengeance. – Я попал точно в цель

7. regimental – полковой

8. There’d be a catch. – Что-то здесь не так.

9. wet behind the ears. – совершенно неопытный в таких делах

10. IOU (I owe you) – (сокр.) долговая расписка

11. We all club together. – Все скидываемся.

12. It isn’t all plain sailing yet. – Еще не все благополучною

1. Explain the following phrases:

1. Protection against protection.

2. So I said with a regrettable lack of caution, ‘Marconi-car.’

3. They were a front for the protection racket.

4. They might reckon that one death would bring everyone else to heel, though.

5. ‘And you’re left holding the baby,’ said Kate, keeping her feet on the ground.

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

1. ошибочно

2. поставь под холодную воду из крана

3. чистейший, без пятнышка

4. сторожевая собака

5. дикая догадка

6. обрисовать в общих чертах

7. подстроить несчастный случай

8. разбить на мелкие куски

9. сдаваться

10. накладные расходы и налоги

11. забрать деньги

12. отбить у них охоту

13. натренировать собаку

14. изрезать ножом

15. очень привязаны к друг другу

16. он был лишен конца истории

17. вылетело у меня из головы, совсем забыл