It is the difference between reality and sham, bravery and bombast.
The newspapers are beginning to complain of the number of Chevaliers of the Red Cross, who are daily becoming more numerous.

Strong men, they say, should not enrol themselves in a corps of non-combatants.

It is said, also, that at Clamart these chevaliers declined to go under fire and pick up the wounded, and that the ambulances themselves made a strategic movement to the rear at the commencement of the combat.

The flag of the Convention of Geneva is on far too many houses.

From my window I can count fifteen houses with this flag floating over them.
We have most wonderful stories about the Prussians, which, although they are generally credited, I take leave to doubt.