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at all afraid; they thought it was fireworks,
and they were quite happy because they
thought they were going to their mother.
They absolutely wanted to bring their
teddy bears, but there was no time. The
Countess had given orders to the nurse
that the children were to be taken to the
nuns at Ste Geneviève in case of any danger,
but nobody dreamt then that the Germans
would come here. I didn’t want them to go,
but the nurse said she must obey the
orders of Madame la Comtesse. It is a
good hour’s drive from the village to the
Convent. I was so anxious, and I came up
here and sat in the nursery, where I felt as
if they were nearer to me. I sat looking
at their picture, when suddenly I thought I
saw a red glare on the wall. I rushed to the
window and my knees bent under me as I saw
the whole village in flames, and further down
the valley big fiery shells bursting over the
bridge and all along the road. I stayed
there till daybreak, praying God on my knees
to have mercy on my little children. In the
morning the son of our gardener came up
from the village and said everyone had fled
during the night and that hundreds had been
killed on the road by the falling shells. He
started at once on his bicycle for Ste
Geneviève, but came back an hour later; the
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