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A sleepy station and its staff awaken each summer when visitors from a nearby summer residence bring lively crowds, creating social display and petty hierarchies. The story focuses on the arrival of a poor student hired to tutor a wealthy family's son, and on the townspeople's reactions: polite attentions, gossip, and youthful curiosity. Young guests parade, make a wager about the newcomer's appearance, and express prejudice and rivalry while the boy slated to be tutored resents the outsider. Underneath the bustle the narrative traces class presumptions, manners, and the unease caused by an unfamiliar presence entering a privileged household.