The Narrator said this about his fellow Traveler, a girl who boarded the train at Rohana.
The lively, light hearted conversation between the narrator and the girl regarding the beauty of the Hills of Mussoorie in October and about the view of landscape from the train’s window between Ruhana and Saharanpur has been described as the brief encounter.
When the speaker in formed the girl that horse station will arrive soon, she failed quite relieved. On the country, the speaker was ready to sit in the compartment for any length of time just to hear the girl talking. The journey that was cherished by him was of little important to her. This deferring emotion made the speaker feel that the girl would forget their brief encounter.