We Passengers

Chapter 24

I want to say right upfront that I'm not in the habit of eavesdropping on my passengers. Never been one for sticking a glass to the wall to earwig on my neighbours either, like some kind of nosy house-wife. Try to mind my own business I do, whenever possible that is - it's not always easy when you've got a train full of people all having separate conversations and it's all you can do to just get a word in to check a ticket or tell someone that their stop is coming up. I can tell you now that I didn't mean to listen in on the women in carriage three - women's gossip has never particularly interested me at the best of times and, at that moment, I knew the train would be starting the turn into Brookwood and I was readying myself for the inevitable moment when one of the passengers would cotto