"Horrible? I cannot believe——"
"It is the truth. It followed swiftly upon the assassination at Sarajevo——"
"Serbia!"
"Serbia first—then Russia—Germany—Belgium—France—England, too——"
"You are speaking the truth?"
"I swear it."
"And Austria?"
"Germany and Austria—against a ring of enemies bent on exterminating us——"
"England—?"
And while with eager ears she listened, he told her the history of the long weeks, now growing into months, in which she had been hidden from the world—including the defeat of the Austrians by the Serbians along the Drina, and the advance of the Russians in East Prussia and Galicia.