She is but a few months widow, widow of a Saxon officer, Graf von Stachelberg who was killed at Namur.

Oh! it was very sad; they were but six months married.

Afterwards she came here to work in our Red Cross--I think now she is in charge of a ward..." So Vivie found a few months' reprieve from acute sorrow and bitter humiliation.

Graefin von Stachelberg was as kind in her way as her cousin the Colonel, but much less sentimental.

In fact she was of that type of New German woman, taken all too little into account by our Press at the time of the War.