Small Station

The passengers who [had:have] left Rome by the night express had had to stop until dawn at the small station of Fabriano in order to continue their journey by the small old-fashioned [local:long] joining the mainline with Sulmona. At dawn, in a stuffy and [smoky:smelly] second-class carriage in which [five:four] people had already spent the night, a bulky woman in deep mourning was hosted in almost like a shapeless bundle. Behind her puffing and moaning, followed her husband a [tiny:tall] man; thin and weakly, his face death-white, his eyes small and bright and looking shy and uneasy.