MR. R.: "I am sorry I was not President then. Ha! ha! Pleased to have met you, sir!"
We were told that there would be speeches under the flag, but we poured out without anything of the kind occurring.
BERLIN, 1912.
Dear L.,—It is not only the unexpected that arrives: the expected arrives also.
The news we have been expecting these last years arrived yesterday.
Diplomacy has decided to divorce us.
We are to leave Berlin.
Johan ought to have left the service four years ago. According to the protocole in Denmark, a Minister must retire when he reaches the d'age limite—the Ambassador retiring at the age of seventy.
The Prime Minister asked him to remain, and he did. But now it seems that the powers that be have decided.
It is very sad, but true.