It was the captured who exulted and the captors who were depressed, though neither expressed it in words, and the twilight was too deep now for faces to show either joy or sorrow.
John and Fleury walked side by side.

They were near the same age.

Fleury was an Alpinist from the high mountain region of Savoy and he had arrived so recently in the main theater of conflict that he knew little of what had been passing.

He and John talked in whispers and they spoke encouraging words to each other.

Fleury listened in wonder to John's account of his flights with Lannes.
"It is marvelous to have looked down upon a battle a hundred miles long," he said.