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to make plans to return home.

Lizzie Le Blond (from Day in, Day out)

On 1 August, as she prepared to leave, a German friend,
st
Herr Stilling, sent word to ask if he might share her carriage as
far as Basle. Lizzie consented ‘with pleasure’, and thus, as she
noted with amusement, ‘started my war-time experiences by
assisting an enemy subject to mobilize, while he helped an
enemy subject to regain her home!’

At Basle, where she had to wait several hours for her train to
Boulogne, she and Stilling dined together on a veranda
overlooking the Rhine. The streets were tranquil and deserted,
window-boxes were bedecked with flowers, and the evening was
warm and still. Suddenly, Lizzie’s ears caught a sound which she
could not identify. ‘What is that?’ she asked Stilling. ‘Very quietly

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