Part 2, Chapter 6

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​⁠It came to Peter as he climbed up the iron-fretted steps to the lonely promenade-deck that life had begun to take on its old golden glow, the luster of the uncertain, the charm of women who found in him something not undesirable.

At this he smiled a little bit. He had never known, as far back as the span of his adventures extended, a woman who deemed his companionship as quite so valuable a thing a