Early in his Ambassadorship he was spending a few days at Stratford-on-Avon, his hostess being an American woman who had beautifully restored an Elizabethan house; the garden contained a mulberry tree which she liked to think had been planted by Shakespeare himself.

The dignitaries of Stratford, learning that the American Ambassador had reached town, asked permission to wait upon him; the Lord Mayor, who headed the procession, made an excellent speech, to which Page appropriately replied, and several hundred people were solemnly presented.

After the party had left Page turned to his hostess: "Have they all gone ?" "Yes." "All ?" "Yes." "Are you sure ?" "Yes." "Then let's take hands and dance around the mulberry tree!" Page was as good as his word; he danced as gaily as the youngest member of the party, to the singing of the old English song.
The great service in St.Paul's Cathedral, in commemoration of America's entry into the war, has already been described.

A number of wounded Americans, boys whose zeal for the Allies had led them to enlist in the Canadian Army, were conspicuous participants in this celebration.

After the solemn religious ceremonies, the Ambassador and these young men betook themselves for lunch to a well-known London restaurant.