“Penelope Mathers pressed her feet into the floor to brace herself from the incessant rattling and tossing but the bitter cold rendered her feet so numb, she retained no sense of how much pressure she put on them to keep herself balanced. She flexed her fingers inside her kid-skin gloves to try to warm them, but the freezing air left them as insensible as her feet. In a last vain attempt to stave off the cold, she shrugged her thin cape around her shoulders, but the flimsy garment barely covered... her elbows and afforded no protection at all. She gasped in exasperation and caught a well-dressed man in the opposite seat twinkling at her predicament. “Is it always this cold?” she complained. The man grinned impishly. “It’s wintertime!” he chortled. “I know,” she replied. “but I just never felt such biting cold before.” “Where are you from?” he asked. “Baltimore,”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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