[31] It was so bad that it made me forget to pack the Commandant's Burberry and his Gillette razors and his pipe.
[32] The Commandant had had an adventure. The Belgian guide mistook the road and brought the car straight into the German lines instead of the British lines where it had been sent. If the Germans hadn't been preoccupied with firing at that moment, the Commandant and Ascot and the Belgian would all have been taken prisoner.
[33] Even now, five months after, I cannot tell whether it was or was not insanity.
[34] It is really dreadful to think of the nuisance we must have been to these dear people on the eve of their own flight.
[35] The Commandant had his own scheme for going back to Ghent, which fortunately he did not carry out.
[36] This girl's courage and self-devotion were enough to establish our innocence—they needed no persuasion. But I still hold myself responsible for her going, since it was my failure to control my obsession that first of all put the idea in her head.
[37] I saw nothing sinister about this arrangement at the time. It seemed incredible to me that I should not return.
[38] Having saved the suit-case, I guarded it as a sacred thing. But Dr. Hanson's best clothes and her surgical instruments were in the tin box after all.
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