The train window was so dank with mist anyway that it was hard to see anything at all except the reflection of myown dark figure hunched down under the baggage rack in my black tweed coat and hat.
Nobody who knows me has ever seen me wear a tie except under protest, and the few that I do possess of myown volition are accidental trophies, "given" to me by the maitre d's of places where neckwear is compulsory.