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Three girls were traveling in a third-class carriage to King's Cross. The train was not an express; it stopped at nearly every station. The carriage in which they sat was more or less crowded with country people who carried baskets, babies, feeding-bottles, and all sorts of parcels. The girls, looking bright and energetic, occupied corner seats. A woman with a fretful baby on her knee sat near one.
"How tired you must be! " said this girl. "Do let me hold your baby for a little."