CHAPTER XXXII

Noll Winsor was neither reassured nor flattered, but altogether dazed to find himself strolling arm in arm with a uniformed lieutenant-colonel of the German host. Klemm led him about the Place Charles Rogier in the roped-off spaces where Brussels’ citizens were now forbidden to promenade. After some laboriously casual small talk, Klemm began to discuss America. He spoke of it with envy as the land of ease and of easy wealth, of abundant food and comfortable hotels, a paradise nowadays while Europe was a hell. He th…