Chapter 8: Mad Nuns—Peter“I’m happy here,” Peter repeated, as George stopped speaking, feeling slightly panicked. “So long as you’re happy with me staying? I can start looking for something else if you want, though?”
“No, no, I didn’t mean it like that,” George said quickly. “I just…don’t want you to feel obliged to stay, or anything like that. You’re very welcome. And you’re pulling your weight, don’t worry about that!” His voice held a note of something Peter couldn’t quite identify.
“I never meant to land on your doorstep and never go away again,” Peter said. “I don’t want to be a sponger.” He felt, almost painfully, that he didn’t want George to view him like that.
He was back in the world now…he’d been out of it for that whole year, wandering numbly about without letting anything t
