"I shall, if you will tell me I wronged you in supposing your questions to be malicious." Lispenard paid no attention to the interjection.

"Otherwise," he finished, "we will consider our relations ended." He walked away.
Peter wrote Lispenard that evening a long letter.

He did not apologize in it, but it ended: "There should be no quarrel between us, for we ought to be friends.

If alienation has come, it is due to what has occurred to-day, and that shall not cause unkind feelings, if I can help it.

An apology is due somewhere.