He never slept through these nights, and he never even dozed; he was wide awake, and his mind was silently working upon the particular problem that was uppermost in his thoughts.

He never rose until he had solved it or at least until he had decided upon a course of action.

He would then get up abruptly, go to bed, and sleep like a child.

The one thing that made it possible for a man of his delicate frame, racked as it was by anxiety and over work, to keep steadily at his task, was the wonderful gift which he possessed of sleeping.
Page had thought out many problems in this way.

The tension caused by the sailing of the _Dacia_, in January, 1915, and the deftness with which the issue had been avoided by substituting a French for a British cruiser, has already been described.