I have my views, but am not a
politician--simply a soldier. You and I are not at war. Let us talk
about something else. With your brave cousin enlisting your
sympathies against our side, what use would there be of my saying
anything?"
"My brave cousin does not enlist any of my sympathies; but that,
certainly, is a matter which we cannot talk about."
"Pardon, but your reference to him made it natural--"
"There is no need of speaking of him," she interrupted, coldly. "I
merely meant that he and those with him in what you slightingly term
an unpleasantness can never be friendly to you. This war may be a
small thing to you, but suppose your home and family were in danger,
as ours are?"
"Can you think that this war is a holiday to me?" he asked, gravely.
"What stands between me now and death--perhaps a shameful and
horrible death--except your kindly, womanly impulses? I am hourly in
danger of being caught and treated as a spy."
"Oh, I didn't realize it," said the girl, simply and kindly.
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