"I wasn't thinking of that either, Berthe, but of you."

"Of course, you will go?"

"Doubtless."

"I was only talking foolishly, about our little excursion. One's own
wants are so pitifully unimportant now."

"I had hardly expected personally to encounter a war," he remarked and
added smilingly, "The fact is, I hadn't thought of meeting a woman
like you."

"I don't believe you're as cold-blooded as you try to seem, Peter."

"I have fought all my life to be cold-blooded."

She never forgot that. "I wonder why men do it?"

"It's the cultivation, perhaps, of that which Americans love best of
all--"

"What?"

"Nerve."

"We of Poland dare to be emotional," she said.

"You are an older people. You know how."