SUBALTERN. Yes, but a great many English think now that it was a bêtise. There was also great provocation. And nevertheless, who knows if there was not in that affair also a German plot?
BOURGEOIS. It is very likely. Then Monsieur thinks that we are true friends, the English and the French?
SUBALTERN. But yes, Monsieur, because we love, both of us, liberty and peace.
XIV
A PASSING IN JUNE, 1915
PROLOGUE
SCENE. The parlour of an Auberge.
PERSONS. A stoist motherly MADAME, a wrinkled fatherly MONSIEUR, and a plain but pleasant MA'MSELLE. Some English soldiers drinking. CECIL is talking in French to MONSIEUR, and they are all very friendly.