On Monday there was the usual sitting of the Commission of the 2nd of June.

Alexey Alexandrovitch walked into the hall where the sitting was held, greeted the members and the president, as usual, and sat down in his place, putting his hand on the papers laid ready before him.

Among these papers lay the necessary evidence and a rough outline of the speech he intended to make.

But he did not really need these documents.

He remembered every point, and did not think it necessary to go over in his memory what he would say.