She saw them much better than I did.

She says that the younger one--and she was but a girl--spoke softly and did not look wicked at all.

But then, my wife is fat and sentimental." The stout hausfrau smiled.
"It is Hans who has the heart full of sentiment," she said.

"When he saw that the French spy was a girl of such beauty and such youth he believed that she should not be punished, and he a good German! Ah, all men are alike!" Hans filled his pipe and wisely made no reply.

But John smiled also.
"Is it wicked in a man to have an eye for beauty ?" he said.