The
article continued as follows:
American photographers are taking "snapshots" of the
Prince at every turn in his progress; but the snapshots we
should like to see would be those of the President and Mr. Hay
just before and just after the Prince had made some political
request. They would hardly look, if our view of the American
temperament is correct, like the faces of the same persons.
The infinitely courteous hosts will in a moment become hard
business men, thinking not of the pleasantest sentences to say,
but of the permanent interests of the United States. Only
the humour might linger a little in the eyes.
The article took some six days to get to America, but as soon as it was
possible for a return of comments I received from Hay the following
characteristic and laconic note:
_Spectator_, March 1, p. 317, 2nd Column,
half-way down.
My Dear Strachey,
You are a mind reader.
J. H.
I turned eagerly to the passage, for I could not at the moment recollect
what we had said, and found what I have given above. By a guess, or
(shall I say?) by a piece of thought transference, I had had the good
luck to envisage exactly what had happened at Washington.
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