When a man is labeled a traitor, he is subjected to execution by his fellow countrymen; but women are comparatively more fortunate—they have their hair cut off, are stripped of their clothes, and paraded down the streets of Paris in the most humiliating manner, subjected to wanton insults and trampling by the onlookers.
Margaret stood dazed, pressed in front of the judges, alongside the women declared to have bowed to the Germans.
"Margaret Renne, you are accused of having maintained intimate relations with the Germans over the past four years, thereby gaining benefits and harming your fellow countrymen. Do you plead guilty?"
"I... I haven't..."
