Answer :
After his first day's experience with the hack driver, the lawyer had considered returning
to New Mullion to practise law. However, he realised during his second visit that he had
been literally taken for a ride by the hack driver (who himself was Lutkins). In this,
Lutkins was helped by the townspeople. After becoming the laughing stock of the town,
it is most likely that the lawyer would have reconsidered his initial idea of working there.