She entered the station twenty minutes before the train was due,since her parents had impressed upon her that it would be unforgivable to missit and cause the friends with whom she was going to stay to make two journeysto meet her. She gave her luggage to a porter and showed him her ticket. To herhorror he said that she was two hours too soon. She felt in her handbag for thepiece of paper on which her father had written down all the details of thejourney and gave it to the porter. He agreed that a train did come into thestation at the time on the paper and that it did stop, but only to take onmail, not passengers. The girl asked to see a timetable, feeling sure that herfather could not have made such a mistake. The porter went to fetch one andarrived back with the station master, who produced it with a flourish andpointed out a microscopic o beside the time of the arrival of the train at his station; thislittle o indicated that the train only stopped for mail. Just as that momentthe train came into the station. The girl, tears streaming down her face,begged to be allowed to slip into the guards van. But the station master wasadamant: rules could not be broken. And she had to watch that train disappeartowards her destination while she was left behind.

　　准时是文明社会中进行一切社交活动时必须养成的习惯。不准时将一事无成，事事都会陷入混乱不堪的境地。只有在人口稀少的农村，才可以忽视准时的习惯。在日常生活中人们可以容忍一定程度的不准时。一个专心钻研某个复杂问题的知识分子，为了搞好手头的研究，要把一切都协调一致、组织周密。因此，他要是赴宴迟到了会得到谅解。但有些人不准时常常是因为掐钟点所致，他们常常会受到责备。精力充沛、头脑敏捷的人极不愿意浪费时间，因此他们常想做完一件事后再去赴约。要是路上没有发生如爆胎、改道、突然起雾等意外事故，他们是决不会迟到的。他们与那些从不迟到的人相比，常常是更勤奋有用的公民。早到的人同迟到的人一样令人讨厌。客人提前半小时到达是最令人讨厌的。我家有几个朋友就有这种令人恼火的习惯。唯一的办法就是请他们比别的客人晚来半小时。这样，他们可以恰好在我们要求的时间到达。

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