"It is indeed," said I, "a godsend."
With an awful look, Berry received the godsend and emerged from the car.
After perhaps two minutes he reappeared.
"No good," he said shortly. "The water's too hard or something. The brute won't look at it."
"Nonsense," said Daphne.
"All right," said her husband. "You go and tempt it. I'm through, I am."
"Squeeze the air out of it and hold it under the spout."
"But I tell you——"
I took out my watch.
"In another half-hour," I said, "it'll be dark, and we've still forty kilometres——"