After all, we've got six months to get there in. Promise me you won't
try and pass anything."

"I promise," replied her husband. "Should another vehicle approach,
I'll stop the engine and go and hide in a wood till it's gone."

"Fool," said his wife. "I meant 'overtake anything' of course. You
know I did. Promise you won't try and rush past things just to get in
front of them."

I took up the cudgels.

"We've got to get along, darling, and he can't give a promise like
that. You wouldn't want to do fifty miles behind a traction-engine,
would you? Remember, I shall be by his side. He may be holding the
wheel, but I shall be driving the car. Make him promise to obey me
implicitly, if you like."

"That's right," said Jill. "You will, won't you, Berry?"

The latter looked at Adele.

"Do you also subscribe to my humiliation?" he said.

Adele smiled and nodded.

"Unquestionably," she said. "By the time you get to Pau, you'll be an
expert. And then you can teach me."

"The pill-gilder," said my brother-in-law. "Well, well. So far as in
me lies, I'll do as I'm told. But I insist upon plain English. I'm
not going to be suddenly yelled at to 'double-clutch,' or 'feel the
brake,' or 'close the throttle,' or something. It makes me want to
burst into tears. That fellow who was teaching me asked me, without
any warning and in the middle of some sheep, what I should do if one of
my 'big ends were to run out.' I said I should consult a specialist,
but the question upset me. Indirectly, it also upset the shepherd....
Which reminds me, I never knew a human being could jump so far. The
moment he felt the radiator...."

"You never told us this," said Daphne reproachfully. "If I'd known
you'd knocked somebody down----"

"I never knocked him down," said Berry. "I tell you he jumped.... We
stopped, of course, and explained. He was a little nettled at first,
but we parted on the best of terms."

"It's all very well," said my sister, "but I'd no idea----"

"Every dog must have his bite," said I, laughing. "He won't do it
again. And now, since I'm tethered, will somebody give me some beer?"

Then and there supper was consumed.

A vigorous discussion of the turn events had taken, and the advancement
and scrutiny of a variety of high speculations regarding the probable
style of our progress to Pau, prevailed until past twelve o'clock, but
at length the others were evicted, and Adele, Nobby, and I were