"Because, mademoiselle, there will be a bombardment."
"The village itself?"
"We expect it," he answered dryly.
Sara Lee went a little pale.
"But then I shall be needed, as I was before."
"No troops will pass through the town to-night. They will take a road beyond the fields."
"How do you know these things?" she asked, wondering. "About the troops I can understand. But the bombardment."
"There are ways of finding out, mademoiselle," he replied in his noncommittal voice. "Now, will you go?"
"May I tell Marie and René?"
"No."