But next time, please ask me in advance to make a speech.
不过下一次请事先通知我一声要做演讲喔。
It took me an hour to walk there.
走到那里花了我一小时。
On turning eagerly to the text, one learns that the lady was a typist who found the sound of office typewriters worried her more and more until eventually she had to go into a mental hospital.