Part 2, Chapter 16

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌⁠In the months which had passed since their romantic parting on the bund at Shanghai, Peter the Brazen had founded all of his roseate notions of Eileen Lorimer upon the one-sided data furnished by those spirited few hours.

He had thought of her as a lonely little creature, sole inhabitant of a world apart, to which he would some time go and claim her.

He had not taken into his calculations at any tim