GR translation: Smiling passengers halfway down

[Mark Kohut]

The ship passengers looking out from ship portals in the middle of the
ship. Their rooms surely.

On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V459.39-41, P467.22-25   The boat comes in to the quay, the crew lower an
> access ladder. Smiling passengers halfway down are already stretching out
> gloved and ringed hands to Margherita.
>
> What does "halfway down" refer to here? The passengers apparently are not
> getting off the boat, so they shouldn't be halfway down the ladder, and the
> ladder would't be able to accommodate multiple passengers anyway.
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