"Yesterday I drove home. I can prove it. All through the trams, like a two-year-old. I admit I took over six hours, but I lunched on the way. I trust that two of the poultry I met are now in Paradise. Indeed, I see no reason to suspect the contrary. So far as I could observe, they looked good, upright fowls. And I look forward confidently to an opportunity of apologising to them for their untimely translation. They were running it rather fine, and out of pure courtesy I set my foot positively upon the brake. Unfortunately, it wasn't the brake, but the accelerator.... My recollection of the next forty seconds is more than hazy. There is, so to speak, a hiatus in my memory--some two miles long. This was partly due to the force with which the back of the front seat hit me in the small of the back. Talk about a blue streak.... Oh, it's a marvellous machine--very quick in the uptake. Give her an inch, and she'll take a hell of a lot of stopping. However...." "Have you seen Roland?" I said. "Yes. He dined last night. I told him you'd broken down his beauty and that I had administered the _coup de grâce_. He quite believed it." "What did he say?" said Adèle. "Since you ask me," said Berry, "I'll give you his very words. I think you'll value them. 'I tell you,' he said, 'I am very proud. You say she is done. Well, then, there are other cars in the _usine_. But she has saved something which no one can buy in the world--the light in a lady's eyes.'" There are things in France, besides sunshine, which are not for sale. THE END BY THE SAME AUTHOR Published by WARD, LOCK AND CO., LTD. BERRY AND CO. JONAH AND CO. ADÈLE AND CO. AND BERRY CAME TOO ANTHONY LYVEDEN VALERIE FRENCH THE BROTHER OF DAPHNE THE COURTS OF IDLENESS AND FIVE WERE FOOLISH AS OTHER MEN ARE THE STOLEN MARCH MAIDEN STAKES BLIND CORNER PERISHABLE GOODS BLOOD ROYAL FIRE BELOW SAFE CUSTODY STORM MUSIC SHE FELL AMONG THIEVES SHE PAINTED HER FACE THIS PUBLICAN GALE WARNING SHOAL WATER PERIOD STUFF AN EYE FOR A TOOTH