1) Lombard said: ‘Sounds all right. Stores are holding out, then?’ ‘There is plenty of food, sir – of a tinned variety. The larder is very well stocked. A necessity, that, I should say, sir, on an island where one may be cut off from the mainland for a considerable period.’ Lombard nodded. Rogers murmured as he followed the three men into the dining room: ‘It worries me that Fred Narracott hasn’t been over to-day. It’s peculiarly unfortunate, as you might say.’ 2) The five people sitting round the table seemed to find conversation difficult. Outside sudden gusts of wind came up and died away. Vera shivered a little and said: ‘There is a storm coming.’ Blore made a contribution to the discourse. He said conversationally: ‘There was an old fellow in the train from Plymouth yesterday. He kept saying a storm was coming. Wonderful how they know weather, these old salts.’ 3) Miss Brent was knitting. Vera Claythorne was standing by the window looking out at the hissing rain. Blore was sitting squarely in a chair, his hands on his knees. Lombard was walking restlessly up and down. At the far end of the room Mr. Justice Wargrave was sitting in a grandfather chair. His eyes were half closed. 4) His eyes turned slowly till they rested on her. It was the dispassionate stare of a man well used to weighing humanity in the balance. She thought: ‘He’s just seeing me as a – as a specimen. And – ‘the thought came to her with real surprise, ‘he doesn’t like me much!’ Переведи красиво