This suggestion proved very acceptable to Washington, who was well aware of Hamilton's capacity.
The thorny question of etiquette was the next matter to receive Washington's attention.

Personally he favored the easy hospitality to which he was accustomed in Virginia, but he knew quite well that his own taste ought not to be decisive.

The forms that he might adopt would become precedents, and hence action should be taken cautiously.

Washington was a methodical man.

He had a well-balanced nature which was never disturbed by timidity of any kind and rarely by anxiety.