Piles of dilapidated baggage surrounded them, and among it exhausted children lay asleep.

Drowsy, dusty women, with careworn faces, were huddled beside them; men bearing the stamp of ill-paid toil sat in dejected apathy; and all about each group the floor, which was wet with drippings from the roof, was strewn with banana skins, crumbs, and scraps of food.

There had been heavy rains, and the atmosphere was hot and humid.

It was, however, the silence of these newcomers that struck George most.

There was no grumbling among them--they scarcely seemed vigorous enough for that--but as he passed one row he heard a woman's low sobbing and the wail of a fretful child.
After a while the girl he had met on the train appeared and intimated by a smile that he might join her.