I thought the English conversation sequence was, on the whole, pretty well done. Certainly a lot less ear-mangling that some English I've heard in anime before.
I'd agree it's a bit stilted from time to time, but I found it perfectly easy to follow the conversation and the dialogue seemed pretty natural even if the delivery didn't always match up.
I would imagine that the reason for the characters speaking English in that sequence would be because they do that in the original novel, and the anime is just following that.
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