“How do you feel about––about us?”
“Who are us?”
“We Germans.”
“We are not Germans. I’m American.”
“Then England is your greater enemy than Germany.”
She wanted to smile at that, but she said:
“Perhaps.”
He pleaded for his cause. “America ought not to have joined the war against the Vaterland. It is only a few Americans––bankers who lended money to England––who wish to fight us.”
Up-stairs Jake’s heart bounded. Here was a fellow-spirit. He listened for Marie Louise’s response; he caught the doubt in her tone. She could not stomach such an absurdity:
“Bosh!” she said.