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(saw by her flickering candle) staircase to a narrow hall, out of which ran a few small, but perfectly comfortable bedrooms.  The cold was intense but two of the rooms actually had open fire places and the suspicious Landlady consented to make them for us.  She moused around asking questions.  B. & Dr Gros went off to see Woodhouse the English medical staff officer and I lay on my little bed with a great many warm things over me and dreamed and tried to think I must feel strange to be in Abbeville under such circumstances.  But I did not feel in the least strange but really very happy and rather exhilarated. 

One only has to go a short way out of St Denis before seeing many trenches, and soldiers working in them.  Near Poix we passed three or four mitrailleuse, big, gray, dangerous looking - things with their accompanying soldiers resting beside them.

I was to be kept in the background so when they went off again in the morning to the medical headquarters I stayed about the town, walking around and interesting myself in the people. The place is full of soldiers, French & English.  It is important because of its position at present.  In the extreme north the Belgians send their 

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machine guns!