急需41、42课新概念二册课文

40 Last week at a dinner-party, the hostess asked me to sit next to Mrs Rumbold.Mrs Rumbold was a large, unsmiling ladyin a tight black dress. She did not evenlook up when I took my seat beside her.Her eyes were fixed on her plate and in ashort time, she was busy eating. I tried tomake conversation.' A new play is coming to" The Globe"soon,' I said. 'Will you be seeing it ?'' No,' she answered.'Will you be spending your holidaysabroad this year ?' I asked.' No,' she answered.' Will you be staying in England?' Iasked.' No,' she answered.In despair, I asked her whether she was enjoying her dinner.' Young man,' she answered,' if you ate more and talked less, we would bothenjoy our dinner !'
'41Do you call that a hat ?' I said to mywife.'You needn't be so rude about it,' mywife answered as she looked at herself inthe mirror.I sat down on one of those modernchairs with holes in it and waited. We hadbeen in the hat shop for half an hour andmy wife was still in front of the mirror.' We mustn't buy things we don't need,'I remarked suddenly. I regretted sayingit almost at once.'You needn't have said that,' my wifeanswered.' I need not remind you of thatterrible tie you bought yesterday.'' I find it beautiful,' I said. 'A man cannever have too many ties.''And a woman can't have too many hats,' she answered.Ten minutes later we walked out of the shop together. My wife was wearinga hat that looked like a lighthouse !