The train was wriggling into motion, and Glory caught sight of the crosspatch Conductor on one end of the platform. |
The crosspatch Conductor took note of the two brown heads bent over the book and wondered behind his grim mask. |
The two heads were close together, and the crosspatch Conductor smiled as he passed them. |
He's a youthful crosspatch, a reedy-voiced adolescent with a gripe. |
In no time at all he becomes broody and morose, a crosspatch and a mope. |
The crosspatch is therefore disabled physically, socially and psychologically. |