"They'll be on the train," he told us, with his splendid calm. "Your car porter will take them on the train."
"We'll want them for tonight, so we don't want anything to go astray, you know."
"They'll be under the seats of your section, waiting for you tonight. The porter will see to that."
It was only then that we realized that we had been taken under control by Canadian Railways, and that the business of Canadian Railways is to make that control thorough, and to eliminate all worries, of which baggage is the worst, for their passengers from the outset to the end of the journey.
Our baggage being checked through to Halifax, awaited our arrival serenely at Halifax. If it had been checked through to Vancouver or Japan, it would have awaited our arrival with equal certainty. Our suit-cases were under our seats when we arrived at the car.
Canadian railways do not let passengers down on little everyday details like that.