Official Report

British Intelligence

Code: 3986                 

Kathleen Winfred

June 1, 1944: twenty-three days

Time marched on, relentlessly. I split time between comforting Jessica, who was missing Matthew, and supporting Freidrich, who had just received another summons to go back to Berlin and meet with his superiors, which he was quite discouraged about.

“Do you promise you’ll come back from this meeting?” I asked him.

He hesitated, and I knew it was something he could not promise me.

So I just hugged him tightly, memorizing the feel of his arms around me, before letting him go, and trusting God that he would return.