A gentleman was travelling by rail from Breslau to Oppeln and found
himself alone with a lady in a second-class compartment. He vainly
endeavoured to enter into conversation with the other occupant of the
carriage; her answers were invariably curt and snappish. Baffled in his
attempts, he proceeded to light a cigar to while away the time. Then the
lady said to him: “I suppose you have never travelled second-class
before, else you would know better manners.” Her travelling companion
quietly rejoined: “It is true, I have hitherto only studied the manners
of the first and third-classes. In the first-class the passengers are
rude to the porters, in the third-class the porters are rude to the
passengers. I now discover that in the second-class the passengers are
rude to each other.”