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Updated: May 8, 2025
She went downstairs, with no foreboding save that the kettle would come off second best in the race between its boiling and her lodger's dressing. For she knew there was no fear of Arthur Constant's lying deaf to the call of Duty temporarily represented by Mrs. Drabdump. He was a light sleeper, and the tram-conductors' bells were probably ringing in his ears, summoning him to the meeting.
In the reception-room Marina remarked at once: "Hullo! is THIS the new dress your mother wrote us about?" Outside, things were no better; the very tram-conductors were fascinated by it; and every passer-by was a fresh object of dread: Laura waited, her heart a-thump, for the moment when he should raise his eyes and, with a start of attention, become aware of the screaming colour.
In the old days of the steam trams, where there were only about a score of tram-conductors and eight miles of line in all the Five Towns, the profession of tram-conductor had still some individuality in it, and a conductor was something more than a number.
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