If this is true, it is indeed a most fortunate thing and I feel sure it is to be ascribed to your tactful and yet very plain representations to Sir Edward Grey.

I do not think you realize how hard we worked to get from either Lind or O'Shaughnessy[39] definite items of speech or conduct which we could furnish you as material for what you had to say to the Ministers about Carden.

It simply was not obtainable.

Everything that we got was at second or third hand.

That he was working against us was too plain for denial, and yet he seems to have done it in a very astute way which nobody could take direct hold of.