"For the most part. It mostly gets busy in the early mornings, when people are all trying to go somewhere at once."

The taxi pulls up to the side street, and Melpomene gets out, patting her pockets.

"Oh, Jesus, I don't have enough cash. Well, don't tell anyone I did this--" She leans forward, and says to the taxi driver, very carefully, "You like me. You are more than happy to have given me a ride for..." She checks again. "Seventy-two cents."

He puts his hand out, and she puts the change in it.