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usually had about three journeys with wounded; twelve stretcher
cases in all, so that, say the train came in at nine and giving
an hour to each journey there and back, it meant (not counting
loading and unloading) roughly 1 o’clock a.m. or later before we
had finished.  Then there were usually the sitting cases to be
taken off and the stretcher bearers to be driven back to their
camp.  Half of one head light only was allowed to be shown; and
the impression I always had when I came in was that my eyes had
popped right out of my head and were on bits of elastic.  A most
extraordinary sensation, due to the terrible strain of trying to
see in the darkness just a little further than one really
could.  It was the irony of fate to learn, when we did come in,
that an early evacuation had been telephoned through for 5 a.m. 
I often spent the whole night dreaming I was driving wounded and
had given them the most awful bump.  The horror of it woke me
up, on