Should the war office fail to recognize their services, the people of Great Britain will prove that they are not ungrateful." A week later three young men sat at dinner on the terrace of the Savoy.
"Shall we, or shall we not," asked Herbert, "tell my uncle that we three, and we three alone, were the invaders ?" "That's hardly correct," said Ford, "as we now know there were two hundred thousand invaders.

We were the only three who got ashore." "I vote we don't tell him," said Birrell.

"Let him think with everybody else that the Germans blundered; that an advance party landed too soon and gave the show away.

If we talk," he argued, "We'll get credit for a successful hoax.

If we keep quiet, everybody will continue to think we saved England.