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She knew It was going to be dangerous and he funked it He hadn't got to drive Trixie into Ghent When the worst caht: He didn't tell her because he daren't He knew she wouldn't let hio She'd stand over him and bully hiet through Going by herself was better than going with a man who funked it Only she would have liked it better without the tounded ainst each other, falling forward and recovering, shaken by the jolting of the car, and perhaps brought back into danger She suspected that not having toowas quiet as they ran along the open road froe of the fields A few houses and the long wall of the barn still stood; but by this tiuns froable at the end of the row no longer pricked up its point against the sky; the front of the hollow shell had fallen forward and flung itself across the road

For a ht: If I can't get round Ia little, struggled through And there, where the road swerved slightly, the high wall of a barn, under It answered the vibration of the car with a visible trereat crash and ru and sprawled in a smoky heap that blocked her way behind her

After that they went through quiet country for a tian The road here was opened up into great holes with ragged, hollow edges; she had to skirt theround to ing over space

Yet she had got through

As she caees They cried out to her not to go on She thought: I ins

Returning with her heavy load of wounded, on the pitch-black road, half way to Ghent she was halted She had come up with the tail end of the retreat