either ['aI'Dq], enough [I'nAf], worry ['wArI], malaise [mq'leIz]

If either one of them was ill or had pressing business elsewhere, the other would manage to pinch enough time from her clients to make the rounds of the other's customers sufficiently to keep them quiet and satisfied. Were Mrs. Harris to be bedded with some malaise, as rarely happened, she would telephone her clients to advise them of this catastrophe and add: "But don't you worry my friend Mrs. Butterfield will look in on you and I'll be around again tomorrow," and vice versa.

Although they were different as night and day in character (хотя они были разными как день и ночь по характеру), they were firm (они были надежными), loving and loyal friends (любящими и верными друзьями), and considered covering one another a part of their duty in life (и считали взаимовыручку частью своего долга в жизни: to cover — накрывать; защищать/ оберегать; выручать). A friend was a friend and that was that (друг был другом, и в этом было дело). Mrs. Harris' basement flat was at No. 5 Willis Gardens (квартира миссис Харрис на цокольном этаже была № 5 по Уиллис-Гарденз), Mrs. Butterfield lived in No. 7 (миссис Баттерфилд жила в /квартире/ № 7), and rare was the day that they did not meet or visit one another (и редко выдавался такой день, /чтобы/ они не встретились или не навестили друг друга) to exchange news or confidences (чтобы обменяться новостями или секретами; confidence — вера, доверие; конфиденциальное сообщение, секретная информация).

although [Ll'Dqu], exchange [Iks'CeInG], confidence ['kOnfIdqns]

Although they were different as night and day in character, they were firm, loving and loyal friends, and considered covering one another a part of their duty in life. A friend was a friend and that was that. Mrs. Harris' basement flat was at No. 5 Willis Gardens, Mrs. Butterfield lived in No. 7, and rare was the day that they did not meet or visit one another to exchange news or confidences.

The taxicab crossed a big river (такси пересекло большую реку), the one Mrs. Harris had seen from the air (ту, которую миссис Харрис видела с воздуха), now gray instead of blue (теперь серую, а не голубую; instead of — вместо). On the bridge the driver got himself into a violent altercation with another chauffeur (на мосту водитель ввязался в ссору/перебранку с другим шофером: to get in — входить; вносить; вводить). They shouted and screamed at one another (они кричали и вопили = сильно кричали друг на друга) Mrs. Harris did not understand the words but guessed at the language and the import and smiled happily to herself (миссис Харрис не понимала слова, но попыталась отгадать язык и смысл и весело улыбнулась сама себе; import — импорт; значение, смысл). This time her thoughts returned to Miss Pamela Penrose (на этот раз ее мысли вернулись к Памеле Пенроуз) and the fuss she had kicked up when informed of Mrs. Harris' intention to take a day off (и шуму, который она подняла, когда узнала о намерении миссис Харрис взять выходной; to kick — пинать, лягаться; to kick up — поднимать /скандал, шум/).