【大學英語精讀】預備1冊 lesson 3 (2)

I said to my friend he may not have heard my name. But my friend said that official had heard my name quite clearly, but that he didn’t care, that was all. Just then I noticed a young porter in a sleeping-car was looking at me. He breathed something in the train conductor’s ear, and the conductor came over to me, we removed his cap and said very politely. Can I help you, sir? Do you want a place in a sleeping-car? Yes , I certainly do I said. The porter took our case and we got into the sleeping-car. The porter saw that we were comfortably settled in our places. Then he said, now, is anything you want, sir? When the porter left I smiled at my friend and said, well, what do you say now? My friend looked ashamed. Well, he said, you were right, I’m sorry I said all those things to you on the platform. I was foolish, not you. I’m glad I came here with you. Just then the porter came to the door again and said, oh, sir, I recognized you at once when I saw you. And I told the conductor so. Really, I said, and I gave him twice as much as I usually give to a porter. Who am I then? You are Mr. McClellan, of course, the mayor of New York, he said and disappeared.