She brought work.
Of course she brought work. She had a document case with a week's worth of reading material that she had been meaning to get to and a set of blank pages for notes and correspondence, and she spent the first four hours of the journey working through it steadily, the carriage's motion a background condition that she incorporated into her rhythm the way she incorporated most background conditions — by ignoring it until it became relevant.
It became relevant at approximately the fifth hour.
