"By Jove, you don't look much as if you realised that we have just gained a victory."
I shrugged my shoulders, and he continued:
"It must be rather a knock for the Bosches! A repetition of Mulhouse...."
I poured cold water on his enthusiasm. The enemy had retired of themselves and had not been forced to by us; a manœuvre on their part, perhaps. And we saw only such a small part, a very small part.
Guillaumin grew heated and hurled himself into nebulous strategical problems. I enjoyed urging him on. At last he almost lost his temper.
"We'll go and ask the subaltern!"
Henriot was coming towards us just having left an officers' confabulation.
"Well?"
"Ah!" he exclaimed, raising his cap, "our success is even more complete than we had hoped!"