After the _Arabic_ and the _Hesperian_, Page's official intimates saw signs that the Ambassador was losing confidence in his old friend.

He would discuss Mr.Wilson occasionally, with those secretaries, such as Mr.Laughlin, in whom his confidence was strongest; his expressions, however, were never flippant or violent.
That Page could be biting as well as brilliant in his comments on public personages his letters abundantly reveal, yet he never exercised his talent for sarcasm or invective at the expense of the White House.

He never forgot that Mr.Wilson was President and that he was Ambassador; he would still defend the Administration; and he even now continued to find consolation in the reflection that Mr.Wilson was living in a different atmosphere and that he had difficulties to confront of which a man in London could know nothing.

The Ambassador's emotion was rather one of disappointment and sorrow, mingled with anxiety as to the plight into which his country was being led.

As to his duty in this situation, however, Page never hesitated.