![]() ![]() They speak adoringly to one another, as knight and lady, but in spite of their rhetoric, both are secretly attracted to other more earthy mates. Raina says this to Sergius in the garden after he returns from war. “I think we two have found the higher love.” He thinks war should be a fair fight between equals, like the knights of old, instead of the nasty modern business of opportunism. He is disillusioned that it is not, after all, like chivalry. Sergius has resigned from the military even though he won the battle by accident. “Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward’s art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm’s way when you are weak.” Bluntschli explains from his practical point of view, that contrary to what she may have heard, it is a soldier’s duty to stay alive. She is contemptuous of him because he wants to live and seems afraid to die, unlike her heroic Sergius. The enemy fugitive Bluntschli is in Raina’s bedroom. “It is our duty to live as long as we can.” She means that his victory confirms their romantic ideals that come from the stories they had read in books, about how a noble love can inspire great deeds. ![]() Raina says this to her mother on hearing that her fiancé, Sergius, led a cavalry charge that won the battle at Slivitzna. “It proves that all our ideas were real after all” ![]()
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