Zeke shrugged at Sergio's question, so the conductor answered.  "She is to meet him at the station in Odessa tonight," he confirmed.  

The kid rolled his eyes, then ambled away, apparently heading off to pester other folks on the train.  "Lost his parents just recently," the conductor added.  "As I understand it, his mother's sister has agreed to take him in."

"The poor dear," Petunia chimes in, as if she hasn't been berating the child the entire time so far. "I [i]do[/i] hope his aunt can instill some proper manners into him," she added, obviously trying to get in the last word even though Mistihkoman has turned away.

The well dressed gentlemen sitting two rows behind the party shakes his head.  Earlier, he'd been in conversation with the conductor and now seems to want to insert himself into this conversation.  "That is the problem with the west," he has a British accent.  "Barbaric and uncivilized."