"I don't forget him. Antwerp is, after all, comfortably close. But if you choose I will convey you both to England."
She cast him a shrewd look. "You are extremely obliging, sir! Thank you, I know you a little too well to accept that offer. You would no sooner have set me down in England than you would return here, odious wretch!"
He laughed. "To tell you the truth, Judith, I think it will be interesting to be in Brussels this spring."
"Yes," she agreed. "But what will happen?"
"I know no more than the next man."
"I suppose war is certain? Will the Duke be a match for Bonaparte, do you think?"
"That is what we are going to see, my dear."
"Everyone speaks as though his arrival will make all quite safe - indeed, I do myself - but though he was so successful in Spain he has never fought against Bonaparte himself, has he?"
"A circumstance which makes the situation of even more interest," said Worth.
"Well!" She resumed her stitching. "You are very cool. We shall stay then. Indeed, I should be very sorry to go just when Charles is to join us."