Each young person was warmly buttoned up and tied into a warlike-looking muffler.
Each had several packages in charge.

A youth came in from the smoking-car and attached himself to them.

When the train had come to a standstill the little French conductor was energetic in helping them to descend.
The family was very large, and, moreover, it was lively; its members were as hard to count as chickens of a brood.

Sophia, holding the youngest child and the tickets, endeavoured to explain their number to the conductor.
"There are three children that go free," she said.

"Then two little boys at half fare--that makes one ticket.