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Torn between two lovers, feelin' like a fool

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I'm woman enough to admit this old tale got me a bit teary-eyed. But isn't that the sign of a good book, when you come to care so much about fictional characters?

It's the very beginning of World War I, before America enters the fighting. Sara Lee Kennedy is a young Pennsylvanian woman whose life is already planned out by society, if not herself. She's engaged to marry Harvey soon, and settle down to a drawn out life of having babies and dying old. But something's happening to Sara Lee. As she and her church society pull together to sends funds and supplies to the beleaguered Belgians, Sara Lee feels the call to do something more. She actually wants to go over to the front lines and open a soup kitchen, a haven for the poor soldiers to have something to eat, a cup of coffee and a dry place to rest for a moment. Of course Harvey is totally set against this. Let the foreigners take care of themselves is his opinion. But Sara Lee has the backbone to defy convention and travels by herself to England.

While there she meets Henri, a Belgian spy who constantly risks his life to gather important tactical information for his country. He aids Sara Lee into smuggling herself into Calais, a city under martial law and right next door to the front. With Henri and others' help, Sara Lee takes over an abandoned, bombed out house and begins her life-fulfilling work.

Henri finally confesses he's fallen in love with Sara Lee, but she's a real enough character to question her own feelings. She loves Henri, but is she IN love with him? And what about Harvey, who's constantly badgering her in letters to come home. She loves him, doesn't she? She's made a solemn promise to return and marry him, she can't go back on that.

Who will Sara Lee chose? Will she even survive the war TO chose? You'll have to read the book to find out.