If she could only have been absorbed again, mind and body, in her good work as a nurse, the temptation might even yet have found her strong enough to resist it.

The fatal severity of the German discipline had snapped asunder the last tie that bound her to her better self.

Her face hardened as she walked away proudly from Surgeon Wetzel, and took a chair.
The Englishman followed her, and reverted to the question of her present situation in the cottage.
"Don't suppose that I want to alarm you," he said.

"There is, I repeat, no need to be anxious about the Frenchmen, but there is serious reason for anxiety on your own account.

The action will be renewed round this village by daylight; you ought really to be in a place of safety.