The Unfortunate Tandem It happened while Mr Harris and his wife sitting on the tandem behind him
(0) were cycling__ (to cycle) through Holland. As the roads (1)
(to be)
stony, Harris (2)
(to ask) his wife to sit tight. She (3)
(not/ can)
explain later why she (4) (to think) her husband (5) (to order) her to
jump down. And she did so. Harris (6) (to go on) without turning his head.
He (7)
(to believe) his wife (8) (to sit) behind him.
Mrs Harris (9)
(to find) herself on the road alone.
At first she (10)
(to suppose) her husband (11)
(to want) simply to
show his skill and he (12) (to return) soon when he (13) (to reach)
the hill. But her husband (14) (to disappear) in the wood.
She (15)
(to begin) to cry as she (16)
(to have) no money, and she
(17) (not know) Dutch.
People (18)
(to think) she (19)
(to lose) something so they (20)
(to take) her to the police station.