Chapter SixI felt Charlie's dismay. 'I'm not giving up,' she said.
'We must if Kate says so.' Christine did not sound too disappointed.
'Let me see.' Lorna had caught up with me. 'Stand aside ladies, and I'll squeeze past you.'
I did as Lorna asked; although how she managed to inch past on that narrow ridge I will never know. Lorna was like that; she remained at the background until times of need and then she was there, quiet and competent. She stepped to the front, and I joined them, although Charlie was far more experienced in the hills than I was.
The ridge curved ahead for another ten yards and then abruptly fell away in a great cleft, as though one of the Norse Gods had taken his axe and cloven the solid rock with a single mighty chop. With the mist so thick, we could not see how
