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I have seen their bodies strewn about the fields."
"Ah, that is good! I hope all German women will lose their sons, as I
have lost mine."
"Where was that, Madame?"
"Over there."
She pointed up the Somme.
"He was a good son. A fine boy. It seems only yesterday he lay at my
breast. My man weeps for him. They were good comrades."
"It is sad, Madame."
"Ah, but yes. It is sad! Au revoir, Monsieur."
"Au revoir, Madame."


XV

There was a big hospital in Amiens, close to the railway station,
organized by New Zealand doctors and nurses. I went there one day in
the autumn of 1914, when the army of von Kluck had passed through the
city and gone beyond. The German doctors had left behind the
instruments abandoned by an English unit sharing the retreat. The
French doctor who took me round told me the enemy had behaved well in
Amiens. At least he had refrained from atrocities. As I went through
the long wards I did not guess that one day I should be a patient
there.


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