Abbleway changed the subject.
"It is only afternoon now; if we are to be left here till morning we shall be starving."
"I have here some good eatables," said the woman tranquilly; "on my festival day it is natural that I should have provision with me. I have five good blood-sausages; in the town shops they cost twenty-five heller each. Things are dear in the town shops."
"I will give you fifty heller apiece for a couple of them," said Abbleway with some enthusiasm.
"In a railway accident things become very dear," said the woman; "these blood-sausages are four kronen apiece."
"Four kronen!" exclaimed Abbleway; "four kronen for a blood-sausage!"
"You cannot get them any cheaper on this train," said the woman, with relentless logic, "because there aren't any others to get. In Agram you
