Yet they were drawn to each other by a mutual attraction, liked each other's conversation, appreciated each other's abilities, interchanged opinions freely, and interchanged also good offices in perilous times.

It was not, however, merely from personal regard that Halifax now wished to see his old acquaintance.

The Commissioners must have been anxious to know what was the Prince's real aim.

He had refused to see them in private; and little could be learned from what he might say in a formal and public interview.

Almost all those who were admitted to his confidence were men taciturn and impenetrable as himself.