I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they  were in my youth.  Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches,  carrying six inside, and making a two days' journey...

　I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they  were in my youth.  Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches,  carrying six inside, and making a two days' journey out of what  people now go over in a couple of hours with a whizz and a flash, and  a screaming whistle, enough to deafen one.