"Take me with you," she cried.

"Oh, sir, I have suffered from the Germans already! Don't forsake me, if they come back!" The surgeon was equal to the occasion; he placed the hand of the pretty Englishwoman on his breast.

"Fear nothing, madam," he said, looking as if he could have annihilated the whole German force with his own invincible arm.

"A Frenchman's heart beats under your hand.

A Frenchman's devotion protects you." Grace's head sank on his shoulder.
Monsieur Surville felt that he had asserted himself; he looked round invitingly at Mercy.