Sometimes it irritated me. But when she stepped into my bathroom to discover me huddled on the cold tile floor, I couldn’t have been more grateful. “You can break down later,” she told me firmly, but not unkindly. “Right now we need to get to the hospital.” &nb...
I knew it had been a mistake to bring my laptop to the train’s Pacific Parlour Car, but I’d wanted a drink and I hadn’t been keen on carrying it from the bar to my small roomette. I was too likely to spill it, what with the motion of the train. Besides, I’d reasoned, I&rsq...