As the babble of happy voices rose and became bedlam, Captain Dobie shook hands with the French officers.
André started at the sight of a Royal Air Force uniform and ran across the square.
Standing beside Marie, Ronald Pitt was laughing with the Maquis over the escapade of the strange “nun.”
Ronald grabbed André’s arms and swung him merrily around.
“How did you get here, Ronald?” André asked.
“Well,” Ronald replied, “I’m on my way to the British lines to chauffeur a general around—”
“Oh-ohh,” André giggled.
“I saw this celebration going on down here,” Ronald Pitt went on, “and I wanted to see what was happening in Ste. Mère. So I landed in a field and trotted over—and look what I found!”
Slim and Weller joined them then.
“Didn’t we tell you we’d come?” demanded Weller.