The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

“Lord LOVE us!” said Hoopdriver, and pulled the bedclothes over his ears.

“If you know it ain't the way to get off—whaddyer do it for?” said the heath-keeper, in a tone of friendly controversy.

“It's my first ride, as a matter of fact. But that's no excuse for my ah! blundering—”

She glanced over her shoulder and saw Hoopdriver. “Damn!” said the other man in brown, quite audibly, starting as he followed her glance.

At last he fell a-yawning so much that very reluctantly indeed he set about finishing this great and splendid day.

He woke up, turned over, saw the new moon on the window, wondered a little, and went to sleep again.

“Annoying her!” That any human being should do that!

It was one of my uncle's profoundest remarks that human beings are the only unreasonable creatures.

“Unspeakable cad! My dear girl! Possible I AM an unspeakable cad. Who wouldn't be—for you?”

She still scarcely realises, you see, the scrape she has got into.