Most of the other passengers who had alighted with them had taken themselves away in various directions, as travellers are apt to do, without any one else noticing exactly what had become of them.
Sophia, with the child in her arms, made her way to a mean waiting-room, and thither the children followed her.

The mother, having at last ascertained the train would be ready in the course of time, soon came in also, and the father and brother, hearing it would not be ready for at least a quarter of an hour, went away to see the town.
There was a stove burning hotly in the small waiting-room.

The only other furniture was a bench all round the wall.

The family, that had entered somewhat tumultuously, almost filled it.

There was only one other traveller there, a big girl with a shawl over her head and a bundle under her arm.