There were, besides, an elderly man, of clerical appearance; a nurse with a small child, a business man, intent upon the financial column of a leading paper, and a schoolboy.
Ben regarded his fellow-passengers with interest.

In Pentonville he seldom saw a new face.

Here all were new.

Our young hero was, though be did not know it, an embryo student of human nature.

He liked to observe men and women of different classes and speculate upon their probable position and traits.