John shouted with joy.

It was Picard, carrying Julie, and the woman who followed was the faithful Suzanne.
Picard put Julie down.

She stood erect, pale as death.

But the color flooded into her face when she saw John, and uttering a cry of joy she ran forward to meet him.

She put her hands in his and said: "I knew that you would save me!" Time and place were extraordinary, and war, the great leveler, was once more at work.
"The chateau was set on fire by shells, Monsieur Scott," Picard said, "and when the enemy saw the French force appearing across the fields they took to flight.