Answer:
In summary of the narrator's journey, she did the following while on the train:
1. She had conversation with the gentleman who shared her seat.
2. She ate much gingerbread and fine pear during the journey to comfort her loneliness.
3. She endeavoured to keep her tickets safely in the innermost corner of her purse.
4. She looked much at Dr. H's paper of directions.
5. She almost lost her tickets till someone in the train helped to poke them out of a crack with a pen-knife.
In Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches (1863), Alcott gave an account of her time while she was working as a nurse during the US Civil War.