The Great Cleanup - стр. 19

The girls picked up combs, scissors, tubes, jars, barrels. Anna's head was engulfed in hissing and whirring. Of course, she was familiar with the sounds. She usually visited a good (or so she thought) hairdresser in a salon a street away from her home. But her hair was never cut and styled by four hands at once before. She was a bit puzzled and scared; after all, a hairdressing is not a massage, everyone around her would see the results immediately.

Yet the ladies were so confident and concentrated that Anna's worries left her soon. While they were cutting, styling, fixing, blow-drying her hair, she felt her strength starting to return. Now she remembered what they were saying about this cream: “It will be absorbed in fifteen minutes. A great tonic.” “Perhaps I should ask for its name,” she thought, “It's a nice thing.” But she decided not to ask, as she thought she was unlikely to be able to buy it later. Everything in this house was too expensive for a common housewife.