." "Hush," groaned her mother.

"Do not talk such nonsense.

The war has turned you as crazy as your father." The good lady was scandalized at hearing the outburst of savage desires that the mere mention of the Kaiser always aroused in her daughter.

In times of peace, Chichi had rather admired this personage.

"He's not so bad-looking," she had commented, "but with a very ordinary smile." Now all her wrath was concentrated upon him.