The country was beginning to change. The presence of the invisible grew steadily. People who seemed “reasonable” and “sane” risked their lives to hide English aviators who had been shot down and Free French agents who had parachuted in from London. “Sensible” men — bourgeoisie, working class, farmers, people it was hard to claim were pursuing the blue yonder — printed and distributed papers in which they spoke of “immortality,” a word they employed frequently, despite the fact that they were always the first to die.
