"I'm in your seat," she said.
"O don't refuse to share it with me; you take away all its value."
She gradually remarked that she was not the sort of person wilfully to damage the value of a seat in a railroad car, and they shared it.
For a time they talked at random. He got out a map and time-table and, while he held one side and she the other, showed where they had had to lie five hours at a junction the night before. But when these were folded again there came a silent interval, and then John sank lower in his place, dropped his tone, and asked,
"Do you remember what we were speaking of before dinner?"
Barbara dreamily said yes, and they began where they had left off.
Three hours later, on the contrary, they left off where they had begun.