Ben and his wife Susan were on their way to have dinner with their friends, Ian and Betty. It was a
dark,   1   night, and they did not know the road very well. They   2   through Cookstown, until they
found   3   they thought was the road to Dorling,   4   Ian and Betty lived.   5   it soon became clear that
they were not on the road to   6   at all. The road that they were on was getting   7  , and there were not
other   8   on it. The wind was blowing   9   with every minute that passed.    
     They came to a small   10  . They drove past a church, and then two houses without lights on. There
was   11   about to tell them where they   12  , or where the road went. Just then Ben saw a
telephone-box, fifty metres or so further on. While he walked   13   along the road to see if there was a
name outside the church, Susan   14   Ian and Betty to tell that they were still   15  .    
     Betty was just saying that the   16  as already rather dry, when Ben came back to the   17  , his head
down   18   the wind. He said that there was a tree   19   across the road, and that the telephone lines
were down, Susan heard   20   more from Betty about the dinner.