[Footnote 13: There must be something wrong here, for the place was, I believe, a convent.] [Footnote 14: Every woman did.] [Footnote 15: This was made up to her afterwards! Her cup fairly ran over.] [Footnote 16: I have heard a distinguished alienist say that this reminiscent sensation is a symptom of approaching insanity. As it is not at all uncommon, there must be a great many lunatics going about.] [Footnote 17: Except that nobody had any time to attend to us, I can't think why we weren't all four of us arrested for spies. We hadn't any business to be looking for the position of the Belgian batteries.] [Footnote 18: More than likely our appearance there stopped the firing.] [Footnote 19: I have since been told that he was not. And I think in any case I am wrong about his "matchboard" car. It must have been somebody else's. In fact, I'm very much afraid that "he" was somebody else--that I hadn't the luck really to meet him.] [Footnote 20: He did. She was not a lady whom it was possible to leave behind on such an expedition.] [Footnote 21: I'm inclined to think it may have been the dogs of Belgium, after all. I can't think where the guns could have been. Antwerp had fallen. It might have been the bombardment of Melle, though.] [Footnote 22: The fate of "Mr. Lambert" and the scouting-car was one of those things that ought never to have happened. It turned out that the car was not the property of his paper, but his own car, hired and maintained by him at great expense; that this brave and devoted young American had joined our Corps before it left England and gone out to the front to wait for us. And he was kept waiting long after we got there. But if he didn't see as much service at Ghent as he undertook to see (though he did some fine things on his own even there), it was made up to him in Flanders afterwards, when, with the Commandant and other members of the Corps, he distinguished himself by his gallantry at Furnes and in the Battle of Dixmude. (For an account of his wife's services see Postscript.)] [Footnote 23: I record these details (March 11th, 1915) because the Commandant accused me subsequently of a total lack of "balance" upon this occasion.] [Footnote 24: This is no reflection on Tom's courage. His chief objection was to driving three women so near the German lines. The same consideration probably weighed with the Commandant and M. ----.] [Footnote 25: The whole thing was a piece of rank insubordination. The Commandant was entirely right to forbid the expedition, and we were entirely wrong in disobeying him. But it was one of those wrong things that I would do again to-morrow.] [Footnote 26: Antwerp had surrendered on Friday, the 9th.] [Footnote 27: All the same it was splendidly equipped and managed.]