The kindly attentions of those who noticed his evident discomfort were neither mannerless nor, as he thought, impertinent.

A woman said to him that he seemed cold, wouldn't he put around him a shawl she laid on his knees.

He declined it civilly with thanks.

In fact, he was thinly and quite too lightly clad, and he not only felt the cold, but was unhappy and utterly unprepared by any previous experience for the mode of travel, the crowded car and the rough kindness of the people, who liking his curly hair and refined young childlike face would have been of service if he had accepted their advances with any pleasure.

Presently, after four in the afternoon, the brakeman called "All out for Westways Crossing." John seized his bag and was at the exit-door before the train came to a stand.