“Were you! My name is Mrs Leslie.”
“Ah Leslie! I knew James Leslie in Oxford. He was killed in the war.”
“Yes. That was my husband’s brother.”
“Oh really!”
“How small the world is!” said Kate.
“Yes indeed!” said the general.
There was a pause.
“And the gentlemen who are with you, they are—?”
“American,” said Kate.
“Ah Americans! Ah yes!”