CHAPTER VII

The wonder was not so much that she should be overwhelmed by such a disaster as that she should survive it at all. It seemed to Noll strange that the whole world was not stunned by what had happened and was happening in Belgium. Yet “Business as usual” was still the watchword around the globe, while atrocity was piled on atrocity in a little realm innocent of war and ignorant of its approach. Suddenly Noll seemed to see Belgium itself, and all the peace and security of mankind as the shattered victims of just such …