After half an hour the two men came back to the carriage. ‘There are a lot of people
on this train,’ Bill said. ‘Do you want a sandwich, Julie?’ ‘No,’ she
said. ‘I’m not hungry. You eat them.’ The
train was nearly at Plymouth. Doors opened and people began to move. ‘A lot of
people get on here,’ the man in the brown hat said.
The tall dark man stood up and put his book and his newspaper in his bag. Then he
picked up his bag and left the carriage. The train stopped at the station. A lot
of people got on the train and two women and an old man came into the carriage.
They had a lot of bags with them. Bill and the man in the brown hat stood up and
helped them. One of the women had a big bag of apples. The bag broke and the
apples went all over the carriage.
‘Oh, damn!’ she said. Everybody laughed and helped her to find the apples. The
train moved away from Plymouth station. After a minute or two everybody sat down
and the woman gave some apples to the children. ‘Where’s Julie?’ Bill said suddenly. 'She’s not here.’ Perhaps she went to the restaurant,’ the man in the brown hat
said.
‘But she wasn’t hungry,’ Bill said. ‘She told me.’ The little girl looked at Bill. ‘She got off the train at Plymouth,’ she said. ‘With the tall dark man. I saw
them.’
