A boarding-house, no matter how genteel or well-conducted a boarding-house it may be, could not longer be tolerated in that situation.

The boarders irritated him by trespassing upon his premises, by knocking their tennis balls into his garden beds, by bathing and skylarking on the beach in plain sight from his verandas.

And the house and barn interfered with his view.

He wished to be perfectly reasonable in the matter; Mrs.
Barnes, of course, understood that.

He was willing to pay for the privilege of having his own way.