London, 1880’s:
He had secured the corner seat next the conductor, where his long legs made it difficult for anyone to get in; and at all who passed him, he looked resentfully, as if they had no business to be using up his air.
-- John Galsworthy, The Man of Property (1906)
(For a contemporaneous picture from Vienna, try this:
https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2014/03/late-arrivals.html )
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