On the train to Edinburgh

En route to a weekend visit to an old friend from university days. We haven't seen each other for a couple of years, so it'll be good to catch up.
The train was packed and the woman opposite me was patiently working her way through a string of work videocalls. Some of them sounded fairly exasperating. After a while, however, the erratic wifi finally gave up the ghost... "Ah well," she remarked, "worse things happen at sea." And with that, she was free to pull a novel out of her bag and relax.