"Good heavens!"
"Ah, is it possible, éclairs?"
"Eclairs!"
And with exclamations of awe they saw the cake shops in the Serpenoise.
German boys cried "American girls! American girls!" and threw paper balls into the back of the ambulance.
"I heard, I heard…."
"What is it?"
"I heard German spoken."
"Did you think, then, they were all dead?"
"No," but Fanny felt like some old scholar who hears a dead language spoken in a vanished town.