the change of scene as only a person who has been cooped up in one
familiar place for a considerable time can enjoy it.

"Why, we must be on the borders of Sussex!" she called out, at a point
where Radmore, slowing down, was consulting a sign-post. He turned round
and nodded.

They started again. And then something rather absurd happened. Betty's
hat blew off! It was an ordinary, rather floppy hat, and she had tied it
on, as she thought, securely with a veil under her chin.

Both Timmy and Radmore jumped out to pick the hat up, and as they came
back towards the car, Timmy exclaimed: "It's a shame that Betty hasn't
got a proper motor bonnet! Rosamund's got a lovely one."

"Why hasn't Betty got one?"

"Because they're so expensive," said Timmy simply. He went on, "When I've
got lots of money, I shall give Betty heaps of beautiful clothes; but
only one very plain dress apiece to Rosamund and Dolly."

"Betty! You ought to have a motor bonnet," called out Radmore as he came
up to the car.

Her fair hair, blowing in the wind, formed an aureole round her face. She
looked very, very different to the staid Betty of Old Place.

She answered merrily: "So I will when my ship comes home! I had one
before the War, and I stupidly gave it away."