This was a distinguished compliment, as it was the first time that any marriage, in which both bride and bridegroom were foreigners, had ever been celebrated in this building, which for centuries has been the scene of royal weddings.

The special place which his daughter had always held in the Ambassador's affections is apparent in the many letters that now followed her to her new home in the United States.

The unique use Page made of the initials of his daughter's name was characteristic.
_To Mrs.Charles G.Loring_ London, September 1, 1915.
MY DEAR K.A.

P-TAIN: Here's a joke on your mother and Frank: We three (and Smith) went up to Broadway in the car, to stay there a little while and then to go on into Wales, etc.

The hotel is an old curiosity shop; you sit on Elizabethan chairs by a Queen Anne table, on a drunken floor, and look at the pewter platters on the wall or do your best to look at them, for the ancient windows admit hardly any light.