‘The thing won’t budge.’
‘Walk?’
‘At least seven miles.’
They stared at each other in the deepening dusk.
‘Well, but, Christopher——’
‘I know,’ he said. ‘We’re in a hell of a fix, and it’s entirely my fault. I simply forgot to have her filled up at Salisbury.’
‘Well, but there must be some way out.’
‘Not unless some one happens to come along, and I could persuade him to go to the nearest petrol place and fetch us some.’
‘Can’t you go?’
‘And leave you here?’