 Sister Pascalina later recalled that the Nuncio was heartbroken that the Kaiser turned " deaf ear to all his proposals " . She later wrote , " Thinking back today on that time , when we Germans still all believed that our weapons would be victorious and the Nuncio was deeply sorry that the chance had been missed to save what there was to save , it occurs to me over and over again how clearly he foresaw what was to come . Once as he traced the course of the Rhine with his finger on a map , he said sadly , ' No doubt this will be lost as well . ' I did not want to believe it , but here , too , he was to be proved right . " 
