(She wondered how that strange personality, her father, had fared in the destruction of monastic buildings.) But she had then no true idea of what had taken place, and the far-reaching harm this crime had done to the German reputation.

She noted that the German Press expressed disappointment that the cause of Germany, the crusade against Albion, had received no support from the Irish Nationalists, or from the "revolting" women, the Suffragettes, who had been so cruelly maltreated by the administration of Asquith and Sir Grey.
This point was discussed by the Colonel, but Vivie found herself speaking as a patriot.

How _could_ the Germans expect British women to turn against their own country in its hour of danger?
"Then you would not," said von Giesselin, "consent to write some letters to your friends, if I said I could have them sent safely to their destination ?--only letters," he added hastily, seeing her nostrils quiver and a look come into her eyes--"to ask your Suffrage friends to bring pressure to bear on their Government to bring this d-r-r-eadful War to a just peace.

That is all we ask." But Vivie said "with all her own private grudge against the present ministry she felt _au fond_ she was _British_; she must range herself in time of war with her own people." Mrs.Warren went much farther.

She was not very voluble nowadays.
The German occupation of her villa had given her a mental and physical shock from which she never recovered.