Their keen young faces crowded the open windows of the cars, and they thronged upon the platforms to make noisy purchases from younger boys who offered them pitiful confections from baskets and trays.
Winona stared at them with a sickened wonder.

They were all so alive, so alert, so smiling, so eager to be on with the great adventure.

In one of the cars a band of them roared a stirring chorus.

It stirred Winona beyond the calm that should mark people of the better sort.

She forgot that a gentleman should make no noise and that a lady is serene; forgot utterly.