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Updated: June 4, 2025
If Nona had needed proof of the truth of the other woman's statement she could find it here. The letter was yellow with age and very short. It merely asked that if Sonya Valesky should ever find it possible to know her daughter, Nona Davis, would she be her friend? Then Sonya had also enclosed another proof, if proof were needed.
It struck me oddly that, whereas Nona, in every fiber an Umbrian Gaul, and Maternus, who had spent all his life beyond the Alps, had both, at first glance, recognized us for what we were, Roman master and Greek servant, this Roman of the Romans, keen for personal profit, habituated to the sight of men from all ports, accepted us for Gallic provincials, and never suspected that we were anything else.
It was cleaner than most of the peasants' huts, so far Sonya must have prevailed, but still its conditions left much to be desired. Without being able to speak more than a few words of their language, Nona yet managed to give her directions.
"But why are we to be sent back to Petrograd?" Nona also demanded, frowning a little in her effort to grasp the situation. "What reason was given; have we failed in any duty or service since our arrival at Grovno?" Nona went on, sitting up, while two spots of color appeared in her cheeks. "Please, Mildred, don't be mysterious.
We went back to the hut, drank a second draught of the strongest and sweetest wine and drank it unmixed, as we had drunk our first before we set about carrying the corpses into the forest. Nona renewed her adjurations to begone. But neither I nor Agathemer would listen to her.
"There is but one thing that I wish," Elfrida said at the very last, even when I had turned my horse and was leaving them. "What is that?" I asked, seeing that there was some little jest coming. "Only, that I had seen the Princess Nona." I laughed, and so they were gone, and I went back to Glastonbury, wondering if Elfrida guessed what my thoughts of that lady might be.
Nona did not go with them, as Sonya did not appear to be well and she did not wish to leave her. So she sent a message of explanation to the Countess Amélie, saying that she hoped to be able to call upon her very soon. It chanced that Sonya did not know of Nona's decision. She was lying down when the girls went away and believed she had the little house to herself.
"More than you think, or can dream," he answered, and spoke truly; for the girl saw nothing in their late visit but a civility done to a great lord. "If the Duke comes to Nona, Amilcare, I will try to put him at his ease," she said after a little. "Try, try, dear soul; it is all that I wish." "He seemed not so to me when first we went to him, Amilcare." Amilcare shrugged.
"I understand," she said. "And now," said I, "since you have our names, tell us how we should address the mother of Prima and Secunda." Nona recovered with marvellous rapidity. The weather continued fair and warm, with no strong winds, only steady, gentle breezes. This aided her, as it dried out the hut. She slept well at night, she said, and heavily in the afternoons.
"I have wanted to know what had become of you and your friends. Somehow information sifts even inside a prison in war times, and I have learned that General Alexis gave up trying to hold Grovno. You are on your way back home, I trust." Nona could scarcely reply.
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