“And you gave him shelter?”
“I took him into my employment. It was during the Armistice when I had left the Army in which I had fought for over five years. But I felt, as did a number of other people in England, that what we were experiencing was just the calm before another storm.”
“Papa believed we should have peace at last,” Vernita said wistfully.
“That is what everybody hoped,” Axel replied, “but I knew how insatiably ambitious Napoleon was and that he would never rest until he had conquered the whole world.”
“Do you think he will – succeed?” Vernita’s voice was very low.
“Not while England exists! Of that I am completely and absolutely certain!”
“And when the war started again you became a spy?”
“That is rather an unpleasant word for it,” Axel said with a twist of his lips, “b
