The Tsar's Travelogue (5)

After returning from the evening banquet following the brief but intense meeting with Wilson, those who were already in France were waiting for me in one place.

"How was the meeting?"

The unofficial meeting with Wilson, whom I hadn't met with any particular purpose.

However, this talk made me smile more than any recent good news.

"Satisfactory. Quite so."

Though Wilson was somewhat aggressively rude toward the end and I responded in kind, the talk was more primal and honest because of it.

"Thanks to it, I gained confidence I never had before."

"Confidence about what?"

"Confidence that the United States is a constant."

That country hasn't changed. No, it seems it cannot change.

Their rigid inertia like stubborn persistence was so different from how the Russian Empire transformed.

'I still haven't twisted that country's orbit.'