Caeser's Column: Chapter XXX. Upon the House-Top

A few days after our joint wedding Max came running in one day, and said: "It is to be to-morrow." He gave each of us a red cross to sew upon our clothes. He was very much excited, and hurried out again. I had said to him, the morning of our marriage, that I desired to return home before the outbreak came, for I was now responsible for Estella's life and safety; and I feared that all communication of one part of the world with another would be cut off by the threatened revolution.