He wrote a deal of it during this month of waiting, and a long while afterwards sent an extract to Dr.Swift and received the great man's compliments upon its felicity, as anyone may see for himself in the doctor's correspondence.
How the month passed for James Stuart in Rome may be partly guessed from a letter which was brought to Wogan by Michael Vezozzi, the Chevalier's body-servant.
The letter announced that King George of England had offered the Princess Clementina a dowry of L100,000 if she would marry the Prince of Baden, and that the Prince of Baden with a numerous following was already at Innspruck to prosecute his suit.
"I do not know but what her Highness," he wrote, "will receive the best consolation for her sufferings on my account if she accepts so favourable a proposal, rather than run so many hazards as she must needs do as my wife.

For myself, I have been summoned most urgently into Spain and am travelling thither on the instant." Wogan could make neither head nor tail of the letter.

Why should the King go to Spain at the time when the Princess Clementina might be expected at Bologna?
It was plain that he did not expect Wogan would succeed.

He was disheartened.

Wogan came to the conclusion that there was the whole meaning of the letter.