The "negro with a broom" whom Gowan encounters when he wakes up in the Oxford train station is astonished at the young white man's disheveled appearance (35).
At the "confectionery-lunchroom" called the Shack, the "man in a soiled apron" who brings fixings to Gowan may be the owner as well as a waiter and cook (33). Gowan calls him "Cap" (short for captain?), but since he has never been to the Shack before that is obviously a generic name.
