And I never saw Hugo again.
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In March, peace between Germany and Bolshevik Russia was signed at Brest Litovsk.
Maud said the Russians were traitors. She said she would be ashamed to be a Russian.
I thought:
‘Some Russians will live, now, who would have died . . . that is some good in a world gone wrong. . . .’
But then the great offensive began in France. The tension and anxiety grew acuter, day by day. More news of the German advance, more Americans arriving in France, and we wondered which would come the fastest. Even in the streets, when one went out, one could feel the general anxiety, and see it in the people’s faces as they passed.
In April, came the famous Army Order of Lord Haig, when he said:
‘Our back is to the wall.’
Walter came in with the Sunday Evening Telegram, and threw it on the table, and a sense of dread and insecurity came with him into the room.