Possible Clues:

• Three notes about drink requiring private exchange?
• ... and, talking of other countries, New Year to absorb summer
• Vacate the quads, hosting a private conversation
• Sit-down
• Private two-person chat
• Small meeting of heads in Paris about opening of academy
• Two heads meeting for a talk
• Handful of articles hard to ignore always in confab
• It's just between us
• Powwow