"But here is how the story ends. There's two stops in the station, and if you want to ride again you just pay a smaller fee and stay on when the train goes to the next stop. Or you can get off and that's the end of it.
"So we reached the first stop and I crawled off the train, and I was lying on the platform, trying to get my breath back and waiting for the world to stop spinning, and Bucky knelt beside me to make sure I didn't choke, and Alice was crying about how I'd ruined her dress--and the station attendant said, 'Which one of you nice folks wants to ride again?'"
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"But here is how the story ends. There's two stops in the station, and if you want to ride again you just pay a smaller fee and stay on when the train goes to the next stop. Or you can get off and that's the end of it.
"So we reached the first stop and I crawled off the train, and I was lying on the platform, trying to get my breath back and waiting for the world to stop spinning, and Bucky knelt beside me to make sure I didn't choke, and Alice was crying about how I'd ruined her dress--and the station attendant said, 'Which one of you nice folks wants to ride again?'"
He has a final sip of his whiskey.