“There won’t be time to get something at the refreshment room?”
They both felt heavily responsible.
“I might—” Edwin said irresolutely.
But just then the guard whistled.
“Never mind!” Janet comforted the child. “In twenty minutes we shall be in the house... No! you must keep your overcoat buttoned.”
“How long have you been like that, George?” Edwin asked. “You weren’t like that when you started, surely?”
“No,” said George judicially. “It came on in the train.”
After this, he appeared to go to sleep.
“He’s certainly not well,” Janet whispered.
Edwin shrugged his shoulders. “Don’t you think he’s grown?” he observed.