A clean well lighted place in the book fiction, there are two waiters bickering about there customers behind their backs. There cowered in a way because they don’t say it in the customers face. Would you want to eat at a place that your waiters whispering to another waiter while looking at you? Shore doesn’t make you want to eat there, if it does why?
There is an old waiter and a young waiter. Some would say they younger waiter is less smart than the older waiter, but that is not necessarily true. The older waiter is more likely to be smarter but you can’t just assume. Like in some places whey assume more that others I mean whey assumed it in a book but would you go around saying “OOOO your young you’re not as smart as him he’s older” Would you? But if you did and said it behind their back it doesn’t make you a coward.
What makes you a cowered is hiding something that you are scared of sharing but you tell your friends about it and not they person it's about, not always the same if it's your self.
So In the book fiction at a clean well lighted place, the waiters are both talking mean things about the customers and saying it behind there back. Also one is older and the other is younger but they both know about the same about there customers.