Then General Gis let loose, not hiding his dissatisfaction, and complained:
"We have always been fighting the enemy to the best of our abilities, Lieutenant, even taking on responsibilities far beyond our capacity!"
"From the King providing intelligence to your country, to refusing the Germans' 'harmless passage' and going to war with them, and then taking the initiative to attack their supply lines!"
"Is all this still not enough? Who else could do such things?"
"We didn't have to do this, but we maintained Belgium's dignity, and that's important!"
"Yet we have been fighting alone, and in our most crucial hour, there is no sign of reinforcements, no reinforcements at all..."
General Gis spoke with such emotion that his words became somewhat incoherent, but Shire still understood what he meant to express:
