"Yes. As much as we like to pay for."
"But the money. How do you pay?"
"Oh, I will pay cash before I leave."
"Goot. I will send you a dinner."
"By the way, what about my orderly? Bring in the same for him."
"Is dot usual? I vill gif him rations mit der men."
"That's against regulations in Osnabruck. Officers pay for their orderlies' food. Bring him the same as me. By the way, sausages and coffee for breakfast for both."
The meals were excellent, and I was glad we were moved off next day before the commandant came back to discover that I had bluffed the sergeant.
At the end of the following day we arrived in Aachen, and again, being the only officer, the difficulty arose about my accommodation.
This time I was placed in a real hospital which was used for German officers, and the accommodation was quite as good as I would expect in England. There were six nurses in this hospital, kind and generous in their treatment, and they fed me with every delicacy they could find, and waited upon me hand and foot.