сторінка 149 task 4 гдз 10 клас англійська мова Кучма 2018

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One afternoon, during the interval at a matinee, Julia got a note. She was surprised to see Roger's handwriting.
Dear Mother,
I'd like to introduce to you Miss Joan Denver who I talked to you about. She's awfully keen on getting in the Siddons Theatre and would be quite satisfied with an understudy however small.
Your affectionate son,
Roger
Julia smiled at the formal way in which he wrote, she was tickled because he was so grown up as to try to get jobs for his girl-friends.
"George!" The doorkeeper came in.
"Is the lady who brought this letter here now?"
"Yes, miss."
"Tell her I'll see her after the play."
She wore in the last act an evening dress with a train; it was a very grand dress. She wore diamonds in her dark hair and diamond bracelets on her arms. She looked, as indeed the part required, majestic.
While receiving Joan Denver she continued to play the imperious and well-bred woman of the play.
"I've kept you waiting so long, I thought I wouldn't keep you till I'd get changed."
Her cordial smile was the smile of a queen; her graciousness kept you at a respectful distance. Julia took a glance at the young girl who entered her dressing-room. She was young, with a pretty little face and a snub nose, a good deal made-up and not very well made-up.
"Her legs are too short," thought Julia. "Very second-rate."
The poor girl was at the moment frightfully nervous. Julia made her sit down.
"Have you been on the stage long, miss... I'm so sorry I've forgotten your name."
"Joan Denver." Her throat was dry and she could hardly speak. "Two years."
"How old are you?"
"Nineteen."
"And what parts have you played?"
"I've been playing on tour. But I'm frightfully anxious to be in town."Despair gave her courage and she uttered the speech she had evidently prepared. "I've got the most tremendous admiration for you, Miss Lambert. I always say you're the greatest actress on the stage. I've learnt a lot from you. My greatest ambition is to be in your theatre, Miss Lambert." "I'm just turning over the parts in my mind."
"I wasn't thinking of a part. If I could have an understudy - I mean that would give me a chance of attending rehearsals and studying your technique. That's an education in itself. Everyone agrees about that."
"It's very sweet of you to put it like that. I'm only a very ordinary person really. The public is so kind, so very kind. You're a pretty little thing. And young. Youth is so beautiful. Our policy has always been to give the younger people a chance."
Julia said these words so simply, in her beautifully modulated voice, that Joan Denver's heart was warmed.
"I must think it over. I hardly know yet what understudies we shall want in our next play." Rising to her feet to show that the audience was at an end, Julia put off her royalty. She changed her tone and became on a sudden the good-natured actress who would be nice to anyone if she could.
"Well, dear, leave me your name and address and if there's anything doing I'll let you know.
"You won't forget me, Miss Lambert?"
"No, dear, I promise you I won't. It's been so nice to see you. You have a very sweet personality. You'll find your way out, won't you? Good-bye."
"A fat chance she's got of ever setting foot in this theatre," said Julia to herself when the girl was gone.