"I have told you already, and often," she said, "I am deeply grateful for all you have done for my mother and me.

We might have been in a far more uncomfortable position but for your kindness.

But I cannot in any way associate myself with the German policy here.

I cannot pretend for a moment to condone what you do in this country.

If I were a Belgian woman I should probably have been shot long ago for assassinating some Prussian official--I can hardly see von Bissing pass in his automobile, as it is, without wishing I had a bomb.