Oh, Elements, she finally managed to say, sitting back against the seat cushion of the pilot's chair, is that truly your selfname? James, actually.

Kodak, a 6-year-old Labrador mix that lives with Mike Hickey, the trainmaster, in an apartment with an electric fireplace, trotted up and down the train, then headed to its dinerlike restaurant, the Pie Car, where the cooks give her bacon.

Friends that I had lost touch with years ago suddenly found me again.

Mother Nature interspersed the petunias with a few dandelions, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.