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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. A great essayist has defined
laughter as a "feeling of superiority in the laugher over the object
laughed at." If this is correct, it makes all humor despicable.
Certainly much coarseness, meanness and cruelty are every day
tolerated, because of the comic covering with which it is draped.
It is not to be supposed that this comedy nor its winter prologue had
diverted Peter from other things. In spite of Miss De Voe's demands on
his time he had enough left to spend many days in Albany when the
legislature took up the reports of the Commissions. He found strong
lobbies against both bills, and had a long struggle with them.


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