It’s nearly over, Susie thought. It will be daylight soon, and this will be over. I’ll be in a little hotel room and take a hot bath. My bags…! I haven’t anything, not even a pair of stockings, or a toothbrush.… I don’t really care; I only want it to be day again, and this to be over.
All her drowsiness was gone and all sense of fatigue. What she felt was an almost intolerable impatience, a desperate longing to be out of this shadowy nightmare and into the daylight world again. It’s been raining for so long…she thought. It’s been confused and horrible for so long.
“Can’t I drive now, Richard?” she asked.
“Wait a minute,” he said. “I see a house there. I’m going to ask them how to get to Bassville.”
“You can’t wake them up at this hour!”
“Why not? I’m sick and tired of this!”
“Well, t
