It is better than alighting and wasting a day in a small town.

You will not mind, perhaps," he added, "if I bring him into the carriage and talk?
You do not understand German, so it will not weary you." "Certainly not," Norgate replied.

"I shall probably drop off to sleep." "He will be in the train for less than an hour," Herr Selingman explained, "but I have many competitors, and I like to talk in private.
In here some one might overhear." "How do you know that I am not an English crockery manufacturer ?" Norgate remarked.
Herr Selingman laughed heartily.

His stomach shook, and tears rolled down his eyes.
"That is good!" he exclaimed.

"An English crockery manufacturer! No, I do not think so! I cannot see you with your sleeves turned up, walking amongst the kilns.