Chapter 10
Jean drove the utility slowly up to the tent with Bourneville riding beside her; she took out the gear and stopped it with a sigh of relief. Joe came to her as she sat there. “What’s happened to Dave?” he asked. “Didn’t he come back?”
She told him what had happened. “I thought I’d better have a go at driving it up myself,” she said. “I’ve only driven a car about three times before. I don’t think I’ve done it any good, Joe.”
He stepped back. “Looks all right,” he said. “Did you hit anything?”
“I didn’t hit anything. I couldn’t get the gears in sometimes and it made an awful noise.”
“Do they work still?”
“Oh, I think so.”
“That’s all right, then. What were the creeks like?”
“Pretty high,” she said. “It came over the floor of the cab.”
He grunted. “Get along back soon as w
