I am, in a sense, isolated--lonely in a way that I have never before been.

I am not exactly avoided, I hope, but I surely am not sought.

They have a polite feeling that they do not wish to offend me and that to make sure of this the safest course is to let me alone.

There is no mistaking the great change in the attitude of men I know, both in official and private life.
It comes down and comes back to this--that for five months after the sinking of the _Lusitania_ the Germans are yet playing with us, that we have not sent Bernstorff home, and hence that we will submit to any rebuff or any indignity.

It is under these conditions--under this judgment of us--that we now work--the English respect for our Government indefinitely lessened and instead of the old-time respect a sad pity.