“Ask him if the London train’s come,” said Paul to Annie, when they saw a man in a tip cap.
“I’m not,” said Annie. “You be quiet — he might send us off.”
But Paul was dying for the man to know they were expecting someone by the London train: it sounded so grand. Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask. The three children could scarcely go into the waiting-room for fear of being sent away, and for fear something should happen whilst they were off the platform. Still they waited in the dark and cold.