Maud Page, the other Edgham girl who was going to the academy, had a cousin in Wardway, and had gone there the night before.

There were only Maria, Wollaston, and Edwin Shaw, who sat by himself in a corner, facing the other passengers with a slightly shamed, sulky expression.

He was very tall, and had blacked his shoes well, and the black light from them seemed to him obtrusive, the more so because his feet were very large.

He looked out of the window as the train left the station, and saw a very pretty little child with a fluff of yellow hair, carrying a big doll, climbing laboriously on a train on the other track, with the tender assistance of a brakeman.

She was in the wake of a very stout woman, who stumbled on her skirts going up the steps.