"Who did you say you met?!" Deputy Chief of Staff Xu was under house arrest when the military police arrived to arrest him and his wife. He slapped her fiercely. "Are you stupid?! How could you have trusted the Japanese?!"
His wife was frozen with terror. She had stumbled back from the blow and fallen onto the sofa. She choked out, "I… I just wanted to save our daughter! I didn't do anything else!"
