Funny Old World

Question 1

Summary

Answer 1

Reggie is sitting at Ms. MacDonald’s, eating violet creams she found in the kitchen while watching Coronation Street with The Iliad open in her lap. Reggie hears a train approaching, but its rumbling sounds unusual, almost as if it’s going to crash through the house, followed by a bang. She instinctively jumps to her feet. She hears people running out of their houses, and when she looks outside, a neighbor tells her a train has crashed. Reggie dials 999, not wanting to be “that person who presumed” that someone else would do it. She grabs a flashlight and tells Banjo she’ll be back soon. “The world wasn’t going to end this night […] if Reggie had anything to do with it.”