she faced him with a new fear: that he would sense the lies spinning in her heart and turn her away forever.

But as he entered the room, meticulous in mourning black, all of that flew out of her mind. If she looked tired, he looked far worse—his skin sallow and drawn, his eyes red from exhaustion. His grief trailed him like shadows.

She went to him at once, and without a word he opened his arms to her.

"I've missed you," he whispered, his voice muffled in her hair. "Would it be awful of me if I asked you to my bed tonight?"

For a moment, she could think only of his arms around her. She smiled against his shoulder. "I was about to ask you the same thing."

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Yes but they bled for nothing. The French front collapsed in 1940 cause french were making war with digged infantry divisions strongholds and choke points like in WW1. De Gaulle use of tanks at Moncornet/Abbeville was anecdoctal in the army. In the french forces most other tanks were exactly used to support infantry like in WW1. Real independent armored forces like De Gaulle asked for in his book "Vers l'armée de métier" was not really followed by old school ww1 generals above him. It was a completely new doctrine and solely used on the german side at that time.

Let's add of course in 1940 every infantry division from german to french still had horses for echelons all artillery divs were horse tracked too), what