云中命案 13

Chapter 13,At Antoine’s,Jane presented herself at Antoine’s on the morning after the inquest with some trepidation ¹ ofspirit.,The person who was usually regarded as M. Antoine himself, and whose real name was AndrewLeech and whose claims to foreign nationality consisted of having had a Jewish mother, greetedher with an ominous ² frown.,It was by now second nature to him to speak in broken English once within the portals ofBruton Street.,He upbraided ³ Jane as a complete imbécile. Why did she wish to travel by air, anyway? What anidea! Her escapade would do his establishment infinite harm. Having vented ⁴ his spleen to the full,Jane was permitted to escape, receiving as she did so a large-sized wink ⁵ from her friend Gladys.,‘Don’t you worry, dear,’ she said to Jane. ‘The old brute’s sitting on the fence watching whichway the cat will jump. And it’s my belief it isn’t going to jump the way he thinks it is. Ta ta,dearie, here’s my old devil coming in, damn her eyes. I suppose she’ll be in seventeen tantrums asusual. I hope she hasn’t brought that damned lap-dog with her.’,A moment later Gladys’s voice could be heard with its faint, faraway notes…‘Good morning, Madam, not brought your sweet little Pekingese with you? Shall we get on withthe shampoo, and then we’ll be all ready for M. Henri.’,Jane had just entered the adjoining cubicle ⁸ where a henna-haired woman was sitting waiting,examining her face in the glass and saying to a friend:,‘Darling, my face is really too frightful ⁹ this morning, it really is…’,The friend, who in a bored manner was turning over the pages of a three-weeks-old Sketch ¹⁰,replied uninterestedly:,The threat of an epidemic caused great alarm and trepidation.流行病猖獗因而人心惶惶 。,Those black clouds look ominous for our picnic.那些乌云对我们的野餐来说是个不祥之兆
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