"I think he is the loneliest man I have ever known," Page remarked to his son Frank after coming away from this visit.
Page felt this at the time, for, as he rose to say good-bye to the President, he put his hand upon his shoulder.

At this Mr.Wilson's eyes filled with tears and he gave Page an affectionate good-bye.

The two men never met again.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 38: This is quoted from a hitherto unpublished despatch of Bernstorff's to Berlin which is found among Page's papers.] [Footnote 39: The _China_ case was a kind of _Trent_ case reversed.

In 1861 the American ship _San Jacinto_ stopped the British vessel _Trent_ and took off Mason and Slidell, Confederate commissioners to Great Britain.

Similarly a British ship, in 1916, stopped an American ship, the _China_, and removed several German subjects.