Before this war is over,’ [Walter] said – or something said through his lips – ‘every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it – you, Mary, will feel it – feel it to your heart’s core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come – and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over – years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.