I don't completely agree with you, but I get the point.
我不完全同意你,但是我明白了你的意思。
All are not friends that speak us fair.
向我们说好话的并不都是好朋友。
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.