GEORGE: Two return tickets to London, please. What time will the next train
leave?#
ATTENDANT: At nineteen minutes past eight.#
GEORGE: Which platform?#
ATTENDANT: Platform Two. Over the bridge.#
KEN: What time will the next train leave?#
GEORGE: At eight nineteen.#
KEN: We've got plenty of time.#
GEORGE: It's only three minutes to eight.#
KEN: Let's go and have a drink. There's a bar next door to the station.#
GEORGE: We had better go back to the station now, Ken.#
PORTER: Tickets, please.#
GEORGE: We want to catch the eight nineteen to London.#
PORTER: You've just missed it!#
GEORGE: What! It's only eight fifteen.#
PORTER: I'm sorry, sir. That clock's ten minutes slow.#
GEORGE: When's the next train?#
PORTER: In five hours' time!&