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"I fully frightened Nothing happened I even slept"

"You were very brave"

"I was very seasick"

"I am sorry"

Henri took a turn up and down the room

"But," said Sara Lee slowly, "I--I--can't be on your hands, you know

Youto have to orderto be a dreadful burden"

"But you will learn very quickly"

"I'esture She could not, he felt, be stupid

about anything He went to theand looked out The destroyers

were still coaling, and a s taken off the boat at

the quay The rain was over, and in the early sunlight an officer in

blue tunic, red breeches and black cavalry boots was taking the air, his

head bent over his chest Not a detail of the scene escaped hiht place for you," he said thoughtfully

"There is one, but I think--" He hesitated "I do not wish to place

you again in danger"

"You mean that it is near the Front?"

"Very near, mademoiselle"

"But I should be rather near, to be useful"

"Perhaps, for your work But what of you? These brutes--they shell