She knew that her destination was his brother Zeke's farm.
From Cincinnati to North Vernon, where they were to change cars, he sat beside her without speech.

At North Vernon, where they had to occupy a bench outside the squat and squalid station for nearly two hours, he sat beside her without speech.

And without a single word on either side they journeyed in the poking, no-sooner-well-started-than-stopping accommodation train southbound.

Several Sutherland people were aboard.

He nodded surlily to those who spoke to him.