They warned her to keep back but we dismounted and walked up to the hill.
It was a very hot place but Cecil was quite unmoved.

We showed her the shells striking back of her and around her but she refused to be impressed with the danger.

She went among the Boers begging them to make a stand very quietly and like one man to another and they took it just in that way and said "But we are very tired.

We have been driven back for three days.

We are only a thousand, they are twenty thousand." Some of them only sat still too proud to run, too sick to fight! When the British got within five hundred yards of the artillery I told her she must run.