They are the best letters I have ever read.

They make you feel the atmosphere in England, understand the people, and see into the motives of the great actors.'" The President repeated this statement many times, and his letters to Page show how greatly he enjoyed and profited from this correspondence.
But after the sinking of the _Lusitania_ and the _Arabic_ his attitude toward Page and his letters changed.
He now found little pleasure or satisfaction in the Page communications.
When Mr.Wilson found that one of his former confidants had turned out to be a critic, that man instantaneously passed out of his life.

And this was now Page's fate; the friendship and associations of forty years were as though they had never been.

Just why Mr.Wilson did not recall his Ambassador is a question that has puzzled Page's friends.

He would sometimes refer to him as a man who was "more British than the British," as one who had been taken completely captive by British blandishments, but he never came to the point of dismissing him.