As he glanced up at the clock there was a pained look in his face. Honor told Minnie she ought to leave the room. But curiosity held her. This love affair of another woman was partly hers as well.
"I want to see him before he goes to sleep," Vanda said. "Have you anything to say?"
He pulled himself together and began:
"When Joseph obeyed that call to go home I approved. I even warned Roman against the possible consequences of disobedience."
"Well?"
"That was before I knew what this war meant, before Kalisz, Liège, Louvain."
"Joseph loathes all those atrocities as much as any of us..." she broke in.
"Yes. That is a double reason why he ought never to have gone on wearing a Prussian uniform."
"The German soldiers don't know what really happens----" she began, then stopped, knowing the argument would not hold. Joseph was no ignorant peasant.
"I understand his confusion of mind in the beginning," pursued Ian. "We all had it. But afterwards----"