America would intervene.

Already the Germans realized their gigantic blunder in starting the attack.
Their men were said to be--she read--much less brave than people had expected.

The mighty German Armies had been held up for ten days by a puny Belgian force and the forts of Liege and Namur.

There would presently be an armistice and Germany would have to make peace with perhaps the cession to France of Metz as a _solatium_, while Germany was given a little bit more of Africa, and Austria got nothing....
Meantime the Villa Beau-sejour seemed after Holloway Prison a paradise upon earth.

Why quarrel with her fate?
Why not drop politics and take up philosophy?
She felt herself capable of writing a Universal History which would be far truer if more cynical than any previous attempt to show civilized man the route he had followed and the martyrdom he had undergone.
On the 17th of August she took the tram into Brussels.