2021-02-17《The Secret Life of Wa

Presently the train thundered in like a hurricane and signed ponderously to a stop.

This stationmaster went out on to the platform and came back after a minute or two. The train got heavily under way again, for Canaan.

I was opening a pack of cigarettes when I heard the stationmaster talking on the phone again.

The person on the other end of the line did not appear to get the meaning of the sentence.

The stationmaster repeated it and hung up. For some reason, I figured that he did not understand it either.

Sylvia's eyes had the lost, reflective look they wear when she is trying to remember in what box she packed the Christmas-tree ornaments.