30. Вставьте пропущенное слово: 1) watching 2) looking 3) staring 4) gazing A strange girl Stephen pulled up the collar of his coat as he walked along the platform. Overhead a dim fog clouded the station. He was 30 ______ trains move slowly, throwing off clouds of steam into the cold air. Everything was dirty and smoke-grimed. Stephen thought with revulsion: What a foul country what a foul city! He had to 31 ______ that his first excited reaction to London its shops, its restaurants, its well-dressed attractive women had faded. Supposing he were back in South Africa now... To 32 ______ the truth, he felt a quick pang of homesickness. Sunshine blue skies gardens of flowers. And here dirt, grime and endless crowds moving, hurrying, jostling. He got on a train and passed along the corridor, looking for a place. The train was full. It was only three days before Christmas. He 33 ______ to go to his parents for Christmas... And then, suddenly, he caught his breath, looking into a carriage. This girl was different. Black hair, rich creamy pallor, the sad proud eyes of the South... It was all wrong that this girl should be sitting in this train 34 ______ these dull drab looking people. She should be somewhere splendid, not squeezed into the corner of a third class carriage. He was an observant man. He did not fail to 35 ______ the shabbiness of her black coat and skirt, the cheap quality of her gloves. 36 ______ , splendor was the quality he associated with her. He thought: Ive got to know who she is and what shes doing here.