If that opinion should be favourable, not a day must be lost.

The King of Spain might die at any moment, and could hardly live till the winter.

Full powers must be sent to Loo, sealed, but with blanks left for the names of the plenipotentiaries.

Strict secresy must be observed; and care must be taken that the clerks whose duty it was to draw up the necessary documents should not entertain any suspicion of the importance of the work which they were performing.
The despatch from Loo found Somers at a distance from all his political friends, and almost incapacitated by infirmities and by remedies from attending to serious business, his delicate frame worn out by the labours and vigils of many months, his head aching and giddy with the first draughts from the chalybeate spring.

He roused himself, however, and promptly communicated by writing with Shrewsbury and Orford.
Montague and Vernon came down to Tunbridge Wells, and conferred fully with him.