Tap a bold word to see what it means. Underlined words are from earlier chapters.
Previously: On the way to Kelantan, a flood stopped their bus. Philip and Pathy helped Aida and her grandmother get to a safe place. Fiza saw everything. Now they are seven hours behind.
On Sunday afternoon they took the ferry to George Town for the eighth photo, then back to Butterworth. The train to Alor Setar left in twenty minutes.
Outside the station, a friendly man from the ferry stopped his car. "Alor Setar? Get in! It's faster than the train."
"No, thank you," said Philip politely. "Public transport only."
Across the road, Fiza saw only one thing: Philip at the open door of a car. She took a photo and sent it to the class chat. Caught him. He's getting into a car.
Soon some classmates were calling him a liar, or a . Pathy was . His face was red, and he at Fiza with angry eyes.
Philip just walked over and showed Fiza their train tickets.
Fiza's face went hot. The whole class had read her message, and she felt . She was , truly sorry, and wished she could take it back.
"I'm sorry," she said. "I was wrong about you." Her apology was . She wrote the truth in the chat at once.
Inside the station, the train doors were closing. Pathy was . He ran onto the platform, waving his arms. "Wait! Wait!"
The train did not wait.
They reached Alor Setar at nine and Kangar, the tenth capital, just before midnight. In a hostel, Philip did the sums twice.
"The only train with free seats leaves at 9:40 tomorrow," he said. "Even if it is , we will be late. I am going to lose."
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
In plain English: Be kind to everyone, be careful who you trust, and never hurt anyone.
Story inspired by Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1872). Word levels: CEFR-J Wordlist v1.6 (Yukio Tono, TUFS) · Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).