The Unrest Cure

I read a very funny short story by Saki today called The Unrest Cure. His stories are extremely short, like 6 pages each. In the start of the story Clovis is on the train in a railway carriage with a 'solid, sedate individual' with a very stodgy and prim suitcase, who 'one could have gauged fairly accurately by the temperment and mental outlook of the traveling bag's owner. But he seemed unwilling to leave anything to the imagination of a casual observer, and his talk grew presently personal and introspective'. OK so I know it was written in 1911, but does this sound like the conversations you often are forced to hear on the train, only on people's cellphones? How prescient.