Part 2, Chapter 17

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​⁠There was a noticeable ripple when Eileen Lorimer walked into the ballroom that evening in the winsome attire of a Quaker maid, with Professor Hodgson, as Pierrot, on one side, and the tall, commanding figure of Peter the Brazen, in a spick-and-span white-and-gold uniform of the Pacific Mail Line, on the other.

For Peter the Brazen, in any garb, was that type of man at whom any normal woman would h