The intimate papers of Colonel House arranged as a narrative by Charles Seymour.

394 INTIMATE PAPERS OF COLONEL HOUSE
in this hour House should come whenever he wanted to have
a talk.' 1
The Colonel's mission would have been worth while if only
because of this close personal understanding with the Foreign
Secretary, and it was one of the imponderables that weighed
heavily in the diplomatic history of the following years.
Appreciative of Grey's honesty and moderation, fearful of
the demands of France, suspicious of German sincerity, yet
determined if possible to find a thread to throw across the
chasm: such were the feelings of House when on March 11 he
left England for Paris and Berlin.
1 Grey, Twenty-Five Years (Frederick A. Stokes Company), II, 124.