Before the day was out, she was laughing and chatting as if nothing had happened.
On the following morning they started early, and reached home in the afternoon.

They were received with delight by their people, although many of these had lost relations in the recent battles.

A house in the village was placed at their disposal, Patsey riding straight on to see her child; with which, and its faithful nurse, she soon returned.
"And now, Jean," Patsey said when, with the cure and Jules Desailles, they sat down for a quiet talk that evening, "what is to be the next thing ?" "You should ask the Blues that," he replied.

"So far as I can see, it will be a repetition of what has taken place.

They will invade us again, and probably we shall beat them back.