When I was young we used to go to the station at least an hour before the train was due, and had time to take out our knitting and compose our thoughts; but now one has to be at the station just as promptly as if one were going to church, and if you don't get on the train almost before it has stopped, the dreadful thing is gone before you know it.

I must say, it is very destructive to one's nerves." Her companion laughed.
"I don't know what you will think when you get to New York." "Think! I don't expect to think at all.

I shall just shut my eyes and trust to Providence." "Your friends will meet you there, I suppose ?" "I wrote them two weeks ago that I should be there to-day, and then my cousin wrote me to let her know the train, and I replied, telling her what train I expected to take.

I would never have come if I had imagined we were going to have this trouble." The girl reassured her by telling her that even if her friends did not meet her, she would put her in the way of reaching them safely.

And in a little while they drew into the station.
Keith's first impression of New York was dazzling to him.