odette was very dramatic. for her war was an adventure, sort of romantic thing that she could do to help. this other woman was very common sense, she was aristocrat. she came from an island off the coast of africa. it had been french, captured in the napoleon wars. england used it as a calling stop on the way to its far east empire. she spoke french growing up, but she had a british passport. she had lived in paris most of her adult life. the day hitler marches in, she becomes an enemy alien. if she stays in france, she will end up in a concentration camp. so she flees, via spain, gibraltar, she gets to london where her brother is already working with the secret agency, hence her name to the recruiter. for her it is a very common sense decision. why wouldn't i do everything to save france? i mean, duh, like, there's no balance to it for her. she parachutes in, and she is the very second female paratrooper ever in history, but -- and this is the thing that kind of captured imagination about this story. she was