“Come with me, really. Two quick stops — Hundred-third and — tenth, and the downtown train you’d eventually get here will probably be the same one you’ll get at a Hundred-tenth. If one leaves as we get there, I’ll stay with you till the next one comes. You ask me, that’s more than a fair compromise.”
“I’ll manage.”
Conductor comes into the car.
“Have to go,” Dan says. “How about it?” Man steps farther back.
“Hey,” conductor says. Yelling man from before’s right behind him.
“Watch yourself and take good — ah, said all I can say,” and steps into the car. Door shuts. Conductor and yelling man from before turn around. Dan goes to the open window as the train starts moving and shouts “Will someone please help this man get to the downtown platform? Someone — you,” to a man running downstairs. “You missed it so help that guy with the cane there get to the downtown side. He’s blind, could use help. I tried—” but train enters the tunnel.
