Lyons so reported the conversation[228].

June 15 may, in fact, be taken as the date when Lyons ceased to be alarmed over an immediate war.

Possibly he found it a little difficult to report so sudden a shift from stormy to fair weather.

June 21, he wrote that the "lull" was still continuing[229].

June 24, he at last learned and described at length the details of Lincoln's alteration of Despatch No.