The Select Committee on Transport (Metropolitan Area) of 1919 concluded the following: Trains were crowded not merely to excess, but almost to danger point. The crush in the 'peak hours' not only overloaded public conveyances, but subjected travellers - particularly the old, the feeble and women - to an amount of suffering, the effects of which often unfitted them temporarily for their ordinary duties.

allusion, confusion, vision

Perchance our lives, should men bescare / To fight his cause for pay.

GHOST does not answer, but turns and moans, dragging his chains as he exeunts.