"Just you and I together!" he said once. "It is very wonderful."
And again: "When you go back to him, shall you tell him of your good friend who has tried hard to serve you?"
"Of course I shall," said Sara Lee. "And he will write you, I know. He will be very grateful."
But it was she who was silent after that, because somehow it would be hard to make Harvey understand. And as for his being grateful—
"Mademoiselle," said Henri later on, "would you object if I make a suggestion? You wear a very valuable ring. I think it is entirely safe, but—who can tell? And also it is not entirely kind to remind men who are far from all they love that you—"
Sara Lee flushed and took off her ring.
"I am glad you told me," she said. And Henri did not explain that the Belgian soldiers would not recognize the ring as either a diamond or a symbol, but that to him it was close to torture.
It was when he insisted on carrying out the dishes, singing a little French song as he did so, that Sara Lee decided to speak what was in her mind. He was in high spirits then.
"Mademoiselle," he said, "shall I show you something that the eye of no man has seen before, and that, when we have seen it, shall never be seen again?"
On her interested consent he called in Marie and René, making a great ceremony of the matter, and sending Marie into hysterical giggling.