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`` We do be gettin ' a bit of it now ourselves , you see -- and the connections is all out of whack . '' This was a cheerful prospect . The train was due in New York at half past one . Allow half an hour for the present delay and it would be fully half past three before Betty could reach Mr. Blake 's office . Besides , she had brought nothing to eat except some sweet chocolate , for she had planned to get lunch in New York . It was most provoking . She settled herself once more , a cake of chocolate to nibble in one hand and her book in the other , resolved to endure the rest of the journey with what stoicism she might .