CHAPTER XIX

There was nothing for Dimny to do now but get through the night somehow and let the morrow bring counsel for a new plan. Seeing how tired she was, Reumont found a peasant and hired a cart to take them back to Rosendaal. He placed Dimny in charge of his mother and sister, and she spent the night on straw under a ragged coverlet. She was glad and proud to share the universal wretchedness. Perhaps her mother and sister had fared less well than she. Breakfast was not served to the _vluchtelingen_. No maid brought them …