She fed him cakes until I thought he surely would be ill.

It was a Red Cross nurse who wrote to Madame about her husband.

He was wounded in the Franco-Prussian war, too, just as was the Major.

Madame went on to get him and bring him home, and she says she never can forget the kindness that was shown to her by every one whom she met when she crossed the lines under the protection of the Red Cross.
"She had met Clara Barton, too, and while we were talking about the good she has done, Madame said, 'The Duchess of Baden may have sent her the Gold Cross of Remembrance, but the grateful hearts of many a French wife and mother will for ever hold the rosary of her beautiful deeds!' Wasn't that a lovely thing to have said about one?
"We start to London Thursday, and I'll write again from there.

With much love from us all, Lloyd." The long letter which Lloyd folded and addressed after a careful re-reading, had not been all written in one day.