However, they soon placed it on the wheels and made the latter fast, and then Pierre might have rolled Marie away had it not been for the crowd which hampered him.
"Make haste! make haste!" furiously repeated the station-master.
He himself lent a hand, taking hold of a sick man by the feet in order to remove him from the compartment more speedily.

And he also pushed the little hand-carts back, so as to clear the edge of the platform.

In a second-class carriage, however, there still remained one woman who had just been overpowered by a terrible nervous attack.

She was howling and struggling, and it was impossible to think of touching her at that moment.

But on the other hand the express, signalled by the incessant tinkling of the electric bells, was now fast approaching, and they had to close the door and in all haste shunt the train to the siding where it would remain for three days, until in fact it was required to convey its load of sick and healthy passengers back to Paris.