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The air-raid had not dampened her sense of humor even if it had destroyed her trade for that night. Another story illustrative of the never-die spirit of the Frenchwomen, in spite of their sorrows and losses: One night, when the rain was pouring in torrents, a desolate, chilly night, I saw a girl of the streets plying her trade, standing where the rain had soaked her through and through.
We wanted a man here not to save us, only to save us from ourselves and you were the best we could think of, wasn't he, Con? But you've not heard about my next bazaar, G.J., have you?" "I mean after that. A bazaar. I don't know yet what it will be for, but I've got lots of the most topping ideas for it. For instance, I'm going to have a First-Aid Station." "What for? Air-raid casualties?"
Also an orderly who had won the Military Medal for bravery in an air-raid some months before. Suddenly there was an outburst of anti-aircraft firing and a tumultuous whistling of shells overhead. It lasted for several seconds and then with a deafening, reverberating thunder-clap that shook the entire theatre, the first bomb fell.
No sooner were they committed than the radar on the commercial airport control-tower picked up air vehicles approaching from the north, and the air-raid sirens began howling and the searchlights went on.
Pardon me!" she sobbed. "I am quite calm, really. But since the air-raid, thou knowest, I have not been quite the same ... Thou! Thou art different. Nothing could disturb thy calm. Ah! If thou wert a general at the front! What sang-froid! What presence of mind! But I "
Also he was lacking in candour, for after a few seconds the suspicion crept into his mind that there might indeed be an air-raid and he would not utter it. "In any case," said Christine, "they always give warning in Paris." He thought: "I'd better get this woman home," and said aloud: "Come along." "But is it safe?" she asked anxiously.
"Over the town, I should say an air-raid, though it may be long-distance firing. Come and see for yourself." He pulled himself back into the carriage, and Peter leaned out of the window in his turn. It was as the other had said.
In her hands the opening of a door became an air-raid and yet what could you do, confronted with her rosy face beaming with a child-like confidence in giving pleasure and satisfaction. No, it was entirely his own fault. Everything was what he might have expected.
I was so excited that I snatched up the heavy elephant-rifle instead of the Express, and fired just above those slow-slouching legs. The big rifle went off with a noise like an air-raid, and knocked me with mangled shoulder-blades into the seat of the howdah.
One small urchin described it as follows: "The Vicar woke us up and told us there was an air-raid, and that we were to go down into the coal-cellar in our pyjamas with our blankets. It was awfully jolly down in the cellar. In our blankets we looked like robbers in a cave, or like a lot of Red Indians. The Vicar told us stories, and we had buns and cocoa and sang songs.
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