The Midnight Train — A Quick Word

A Quick Word

Agnes had wanted a quick word.

“You tried to interfere with your life back there in the cinema. That’s not what this journey is about, Old Bean. No meddling, no tinkering, no fiddling with time…It’s impossibly dangerous. Clear?”

“But, Agnes, I can see it now, I squandered love…I squandered time…”

“Yes. Yes, you really did. More even than most. But you have no choice.

This train has one route and one destination. As I have said, you are here to watch.”

And then, before he had time to answer, she walked to the front of the train, leaving Wilbur to stare out of the window at his younger self also staring out of a window, wondering what his life had in store.