Lucine: Can I help you?
Herta: Yes. When is the next train to New York City?
Lucine: Let me see. . . the train to New York City. . . here it is. . . daily except Sunday at ten thirty, twelve twenty and fifteen ten.
Herta: Aren't there any trains before ten thirty?
Lucine: Sorry, not before ten thirty.
Herta: Then one to New York at ten thirty.
Lucine: One way or round trip?
Herta: One way.
Lucine: A soft seat or hard one?
Herta: How much is a soft?
Lucine: 15 dollars. And for a hard one, only 6 dollars.
Herta: Then one hard seat, please.
Lucine: OK. Here is your change. The train leaves on platform 8.
Herta buys a one-way hard-seat train ticket to New York City with Lucine's assistance.