Into the middle of the trip, when the train stops at a station, enters a woman of the same age of the mother of three. The new character, “elegant”, walks up to them and “rather curtly” asks the man to make room for her. That triggers a chain of interactions between the three adults—varied and often changing course, much to the amusement of the reader. Towards the end, a young man joins the “elegant” woman, and together they occupy two seats near the window. Their pleasant chatter makes the other woman realise that “this was what she had unknowingly longed for always in the midst of the drudgery that was her life”. As the train speeds on well beyond the twilight hour, the sky sports a waxing moon that the young couple find beautiful. The mother of three wants on someone’s arm to watch the moon, but her husband is far removed in a world that has no such sentiments.