A woman of cultivation, a tireless reader, a close observer of people and events and a shrewd commentator upon them, she also had an unobtrusive dignity, a penetrating sympathy, and a capacity for human association, which, while more restrained and more placid than that of her husband, made her a helpful companion for a sorely burdened man.

The American Embassy under Mr.and Mrs.Page was not one of London's smart houses as that word is commonly understood in this great capital.

But No.

6 Grosvenor Square, in the spaciousness of its rooms, the simple beauty of its furnishings, and especially in its complete absence of ostentation, made it the worthy abiding place of an American Ambassador.

And the people who congregated there were precisely the kind that appeal to the educated American.