Yet there were many indications that he was thinking about them, and his thoughts, as his letters reveal, were concerned with more things than the tragedy itself.

He believed that his country was now face to face with its destiny.

What would Washington do?
Page had a characteristic way of thinking out his problems.

He performed his routine work at the Chancery in the daytime, but his really serious thinking he did in his own room at night.

The picture is still a vivid one in the recollection of his family and his other intimates.