Meeting Ogden Ogden a few days later, he was told that Lispenard had gone west for a hunting trip, quite unexpectedly.

"He said not to expect him back till he came.

He seemed out of sorts at something." In September Peter had a letter from Miss De Voe.

Merely a few lines saying that she had decided to spend the winter abroad, and was on the point of sailing.

"I am too hurried to see my friends, but did not like to go without some good-byes, so I write them." On the whole, as in the case of most comedies, there was little amusement for the actual performers.