" Oh dear!” exclaimed the thin Miss Hervey, “how very stupid and trying. Edward will be waiting for us at Croydon.” “Edward will have learned of the delay,” said Miss May cheerfully. “We need not trouble ourselves about Edward. We can get a plane at Glasgow to take us south — or else go by train. As Miss Forrest rightly says we are fortunate in being safe. On second thoughts I should prefer to take the train, Ethel dear, if you have no objection. It takes longer, of course, but I feel I have had sufficient air-travel for some time. "

― D.E. Stevenson , The Empty World