He was fully repaid in his own mind for his trouble by the mere presence and friendship of Landor, for whose quaint and volcanic personality he had a vast admiration, compounded of the pleasure of the artist in an oddity and of the man in a hero.
It is somewhat amusing and characteristic that Mrs.Browning did not share this unlimited enjoyment of the company of Mr.Landor, and expressed her feelings in her own humorous manner.

She writes, "Dear, darling Robert amuses me by talking of his gentleness and sweetness.

A most courteous and refined gentleman he is, of course, and very affectionate to Robert (as he ought to be), but of self-restraint he has not a grain, and of suspicion many grains.

What do you really say to dashing down a plate on the floor when you don't like what's on it?
Robert succeeded in soothing him, and the poor old lion is very quiet on the whole, roaring softly to beguile the time in Latin alcaics against his wife and Louis Napoleon." One event alone could really end this endless life of the Italian Arcadia.

That event happened on June 29, 1861.