over the
whole day. Similarly the events that the Day-Book attributes to Monday
must have belonged to Tuesday. And if Tuesday's events were really
Wednesday's, that clears up a painful doubt I had as to Wednesday, which
came into my Day-Book as an empty extra which I couldn't account for in
any way. There I was with a day left over and nothing to put into it.
And yet Wednesday, the 7th, was the first day of the real siege of
Antwerp. On Thursday, the 8th, I started clear.]

[Footnote 8: It wasn't. This was only the first slender trickling. The
flood came three days later with the bombardment of the city.]

[Footnote 9: Of all the thousands and thousands of refugees whom I have
seen I have only seen three weep, and they were three out of six hundred
who had just disembarked at the Prince of Wales's Pier at Dover. But in
Belgium not one tear.]

[Footnote 10: This is all wrong. The main stream went as straight as it
could for the sea-coast--Holland or Ostend.]

[Footnote 11: The outer forts were twelve miles away.]

[Footnote 12: At the time of writing--February 19th, 1915. My Day-Book
gives no record of anything but the hospitals we visited.]

[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