But they'll be as busy and as active as ever a little way behind the fighting line, looking for spies.

They'll remember what the Russians had to say about you, and they'll decide that you're a suspicious character, and lock you up in some fortress till the war's over!" "Gee! That's a nice prospect! Say, Boris, what am I to do?
If I go to Berlin, I'll be arrested! If I go back to Russia, my uncle will probably have me boiled in oil or something! If I stay here, your peasant friends down below will lynch me! I'm beginning to think I'm not popular around here!" Boris laughed, but his eyes were grave.
"It's a ridiculous situation," he said.

"I don't really know what to say.

I don't believe you need to fear Mikail very much.

He has a good deal to think of by this time, because, now that the war has come, he won't have time for intrigue.