The two men discussed everything with the utmost calmness and without the slightest indications of ill-nature.

Both men had in mind their long association, both inevitably recalled the hopes with which they had begun their official relationship three years before, at that time neither having the faintest intimation of the tremendous problems that were to draw them asunder.

Mr.Wilson at this meeting did not impress his Ambassador as a perverse character, but as an extremely pathetic one.

Page came away with no vexation or anger, but with a real feeling for a much suffering and a much perplexed statesman.

The fact that the President's life was so solitary, and that he seemed to be so completely out of touch with men and with the living thoughts of the world, appealed strongly to Page's sympathies.