"
"This is truly remarkable," said I. "The only thing I did was to lead
a regiment out of danger."
"The danger was annihilation. If a Captain or a Colonel had done it,
we should have thought nothing of it; but an utter stranger, who had
nothing in common with either cause--ah, believe me, it was a very
gallant thing to do."
"This is positively the first time I was ever glad that I did the
thing." I placed my hand over my heart. "But, after all, that is not
half so brave as what I am doing now."
"I do not understand," said she puzzled.
"Why, it is simple. Here I am talking to you, occupying your time and
keeping those fierce Generals at bay. See how they are gnawing their
mustaches and biting their lips and asking one another who I am. There
are as many as five challenges waiting for me the moment I depart from
your side."
There was mischief in her eye.
"Then you shall stay with me, find me an ice and waltz once with me,
for if anything happened to you I should always have myself to blame."
I waltzed with her, and the perfume of her hair got into my head, and I
grew dizzy.
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