MR. R.: "Oh, I see! Well, madame, I am delighted to shake hands with
any one from Cambridge."
Johan's was like this:
MRS. HILL: "Monsieur de Hegermann was Danish Minister in Washington
some years ago."
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.