
`I admit that she is domestic (я признаю/допускаю, что она /очень/ домашняя = домосед; domestic — семейный, домашний),' he continued (продолжал он), `but I love traveling (но я люблю путешествовать), and my wife, consequently (и моя жена, следовательно), should love travelling also (также должна любить путешествовать).'
`Will you come away with me (ты полетишь со мною; to come — приходить, идти, to come away — уходить)?' he said finally to her (сказал он, наконец, ей; final — последний, заключительный); but the Reed shook her head (но Камышинка покачала головой; to shake (shook, shaken) — трясти), she was so attached to her home (она была настолько привязана к /своему/ дому).
coquette [kəυ'ket] curtsy ['kə:tsi] consequently ['konsikwəntli]
After they had gone he felt lonely, and began to tire of his lady-love. `She has no conversation,' he said, `and I am afraid that she is a coquette, for she is always flirting with the wind.' And certainly, whenever the wind blew, the Reed made the most graceful curtsies. `I admit that she is domestic,' he continued, `but I love travelling, and my wife, consequently, should love travelling also.'
