I really do not know; he is a stranger to me, I observed.
After a few minutes’ pause, in which he seemed to have indulged a profound meditation, he again whispered in my ears, saying, “I wonder who that lady is sitting next to you.”
I cannot say, I replied.
The train travelled on at a great speed, passing station after station in rapid succession.
Again he said, “I wonder how fast we are travelling now.”
Oh, perhaps sixty miles an hour.
Quickly, he said, “I wonder what station that is we have just passed.”
I think it is Swindon.
After a brief pause:—
“I wonder what time this train gets into Bristol.”