Effusively I expressed my regret at putting the General Staff to inconvenience.
"It was really too stupid of me," I said.

"I cannot forgive myself.

I should not have come so far without asking Jarotsky for proper papers.

I am extremely sorry I have given you this trouble.

I would like to see the general and assure him I will return at once to Brussels." I ignored the fact that I was being taken to the general at the rate of sixty miles an hour.