"No, don't let's," said Berry, with a hysterical laugh. "Let's—let's absolutely refuse."
Jill went on breathlessly—
"Let's go for a run towards Lourdes and see the sun rise over the mountains."
Our first impulse was to denounce the idea. Upon examination, however, its hidden value emerged.
We were sick and tired of trying to wake the servants; to effect an entrance was seemingly out of the question; to spend another two hours wandering about the garden or wooing slumber in the cars was not at all to our liking.
Finally, we decided that, since we should be back before the world proper was astir, our appearance, if it was noticed at all, would but afford a few peasants an experience which they could relate with relish for many years, and that, since the sky was cloudless, so convenient an occasion of observing a very famous effect should not be rejected.
Five minutes later Ping and Pong slid silently under the Pont Oscar II. and so down a winding hill, out of the sleeping town and on to the Bizanos road.
Our headlights were powerful, the road was not too bad, and the world was empty…
I let Jonah, who was leading, get well away, and then gave the car her head.
Well as we knew it, our way seemed unfamiliar.