“Doubtless.”
“I was only talking foolishly, about our little excursion. One's own wants are so pitifully unimportant now.”
“I had hardly expected personally to encounter a war,” he remarked and added smilingly, “The fact is, I hadn't thought of meeting a woman like you.”
“I don't believe you're as cold-blooded as you try to seem, Peter.”
“I have fought all my life to be cold-blooded.”
She never forgot that. “I wonder why men do it?”
“It's the cultivation, perhaps, of that which Americans love best of all—”
“What?”
“Nerve.”
“We of Poland dare to be emotional,” she said.