Isobel and Emile Read Free

train all day.’
    It is dark outside. The street lights have come on. It is late now. In the morning Emile got on a train.
    He stood on the platform of a train station. The train pulled into the station. It stopped. The station attendant walked down the platform. He opened the doors to the train.
    There were people who got off the train. After they got off the train Emile got on the train.
    He had his suitcase and his knapsack with him. He went up the steps and into the train. There were seats there. There were people sitting in some of the seats and some of the seats were empty.
    Emile took off his knapsack. There was a rack over the seats. It was where people were supposed to put their luggage. He put his knapsack on the rack above the seats. It was with other people ’s luggage. Some of the other people had knapsacks for luggage and some of them had suitcases.
    Emile did not put his suitcase on the rack above the seats. He sat down in the seat under his knapsack.
    He tried to put his suitcase under the seat in front of him. It did not fit. He put his suitcase under his seat instead. He did not like having his suitcase under his seat. He took his suitcase out from under his seat.He put it on his lap.He held it with his hands.
    The cushion on his seat was red. All the seats had red cushions on them and the walls of the train were painted brown. He was sitting next to a window.
    He looked out the window. The train was still beside the platform. It had not yet moved. He sat in his seat next to the window and he looked out at the platform.
    There had been a girl standing on the platform.
    The train started to move. It was moving along the platform and then the platform was gone. Where the platform had been there were things moving past the window. First there were the fields by the station and then there were other fields. The train stopped at a town and then it went past more fields.
    There were sheep in the fields. They did not look up at the train. They ate grass instead.
    Emile did not look at the sheep.
    The train went past another town. There was a station at this town. The train did not stop. The train went through the station and then there were not as many fields. There were buildings where there used to be fields.
    The buildings were small and old. Some of them were abandoned. Then the buildings were larger and not as old.
    Emile did not look at the buildings. He looked out the window but he did not look at the buildings.
    The buildings got larger. They came closer to the tracks. The train kept moving. The buildings were up against the tracks. The train kept moving. There were buildings up against the tracks and then there was a building in front of the tracks. The tracks went into it.
    The building in front of the tracks was a station. The train had gone through other stations. It had stopped at some of those stations. Those stations had been platforms built beside the tracks. People waited on the platforms for the train to come.
    Those stations were not like this station. This station was larger. The train went inside it. There was a ceiling high up overhead. The ceiling was made of panes of glass. There were pigeons living under it. It was filthy.
    Emile looked out the window. He was not looking at anything on the other side of the window. He did not want to look at anything.
    He was in the city again.
    The train was not the only train in the station. There were other trains here. They were moving. Some of the trains were moving into the station and other trains were moving out of the station.
    The train Emile was on went into the station. It stopped. It waited. Emile looked away from the window. He held on to his suitcase. The train waited and then it moved towards a platform.
    The train stopped. Emile stood up. He took his knapsack from the rack over his seat. He had his suitcase in his hand.
    He tried to get off the train. He could not get off the train. There were people in the way. They were the people