Lord Rosebery would be the last person to whom one would look for hope in general.

Chief amongst them I put Von Keudall, but, as Lord Rosebery did not know him, and the custom of Rome is that the newcomer makes the first call, Lady Rosebery was in a quandary, her ideas of the position of her husband not consenting that he should make the first call on an ambassador.

On one occasion he remarked that Lord Rosebery was not a man to go tiger-shooting withexcept at the Zoo.