), bowing her head against the wind (наклоняя свою голову против ветра), a little dark question mark on the snow (маленький темный вопросительный знак на снегу).
cease [si:s], chariot ['tSxrIqt], distance ['dIstqns], bow ['bau]
"It won't do any good. Perhaps the police are right. Perhaps poor Harry got mixed up ..."
"Fraulein Schmidt," the voice called again.
"I must go."
"I'll walk with you a bit of the way."
The dark was almost down: the snow had ceased for a while to fall: and the great statues of the Ring, the prancing horses, the chariots and the eagles, were gunshot grey with the end of evening light. "It's better to give up and forget," Anna said. The moony snow lay ankle deep on the unswept pavements.
"Will you give me the doctor's address?"
They stood in the shelter of a wall while she wrote it down for him.
"And yours too?"
"Why do you want that?"
"I might have news for you."
"There isn't any news that would do any good now." He watched her from a distance board her tram, bowing her head against the wind, a little dark question mark on the snow.
6
AN AMATEUR detective has this advantage over the professional (детектив-любитель имеет то преимущество перед профессионалом; over — над), that he doesn't work set hours (что он не работает в /точно/ установленные часы). Rollo Martins was not confined to the eight hour day (Ролло Мартинс не был ограничен восьмичасовым днем), his investigations didn't have to pause for meals (его расследования не должны были останавливаться для еды; meal — прием пищи; еда). In his one day (в свой один день) he covered as much ground (он осилил так много информации: «он покрыл так много земли») as one of my men would have covered in two (как один из моих людей покрыл бы в два), and he had this initial advantage over us (и он имел это изначальное преимущество перед: «над» нами), that he was Harry's friend (что он был другом Гарри). He was, as it were, working from inside (он работал как бы/можно сказать: «как это было» изнутри), while we pecked at the perimeter (в то время как мы клевали по периметру).
Dr. Winkler was at home (доктор Винклер был дома). Perhaps he would not have been at home to a police officer (возможно, он не был бы дома для полицейского; officer — офицер, сотрудник). Again Martins had marked his card (снова Мартинс подписал свою карточку) with the sesame phrase (чудодейственной фразой: «фразой-сезамом»): "A friend of Harry Lime's (друг Гарри Лайма)."
Dr. Winkler's waiting room reminded Martins of an antique shop (приемная доктора Винклера напомнила Мартинсу антикварный магазин)—an antique shop that specialized in religious objets d'art (антикварный магазин, который специализировался на религиозных предметах искусства;