So I concluded I would obey the mandate of duty, and turned toward the great doors.

Indeed, I was well toward the steps which led out into the grounds, when all at once two elements of my problem resolved themselves into one.

I saw the tall figure of Mr.Calhoun himself coming up the walk toward me.
"Ah," said he briefly, "then my message found you ?" "I was starting for you this moment, sir" I replied.
"Wait for a moment.

I counted on finding you here.

Matters have changed." I turned with him and we entered again the East Room, where Mr.Tyler still prolonged the official greeting of the curious, the obsequious, or the banal persons who passed.