Presently Vivie would wake up completely and there would even be no Oberst, no orderly; only the peaceful life of the farm that was going on yesterday.

Here a sound of angry voices interrupted her musings.

The cows returning by themselves from the pasture were being intercepted by soldiers who were trying to secure them.

Vivie in her indignation ran out and ordered the soldiers off, in English.

To her surprise they obeyed silently, but as they sauntered away to their quarters she was saddened at seeing them carrying the bodies of most of the turkeys and fowls and even the corpse of the poor tailless peacock.