CHAPTER XXXI.
CONFLICTS.
Lispenard went back with Peter to the city.

He gave his reason on the train: "You see I go back to the city occasionally in the summer, so as to make the country bearable, and then I go back to the country, so as to make the city endurable.

I shall be in Newport again in a week.

When will you come back ?" "My summering's over." "Indeed.

I thought my cousin would want you again!" "She did not say so." "The deuce she didn't.