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she cried . `` I thought you were the one who was in a hurry to be off and now look at you -- sitting there like -- '' `` Engine is missing , '' Betty informed her briskly . `` Guess I had better have a look -- '' `` If you start fussing with bolts and screws now , you can count me out , '' said Mollie , resolutely climbing back into her car . `` It is ten o'clock already , and we wo n't be home before night if we do n't hurry . '' `` Oh , all right , '' laughed Betty . `` But if the car gives out before we get back do n't blame me , that 's all . '' `` It would give me the greatest of pleasure , '' said Mollie with a diabolical chuckle as her machine moved off down the street , `` to have everyone in Deepdale see me towing your poor little flivver through the town . ''