Peter's Progress

Excerpt from Peter's Progress
"Life parti-coloured, half pleasure, half care."
"G-rrr! The malice, oh, the malice of inanimate matter!" exclaimed Peter Dare angrily as he leant down to retrieve a recalcitrant collar-stud that had taken up a strong position under the chest-of-drawers.
He was the senior subaltern of the Westshire Regiment, stationed at Ghazipur in the Punjab, this tall, good-looking boy who was railing so comprehensively at things in general, and in particular at that majestic force which rules the universe - compelling alike constellations and collar-studs - the inexorable Law of Gravitation.
Frightfully late for dinner he was; there was not the slightest doubt about that! It was entirely his own fault, too, for he had lingered very much longer than he ought to have done at the club, talking to Mrs Curtis, the judge's wife.
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