If his rage had broken him into a hundred pieces every one of them would have disregarded the incident, and leapt at the sleeper.
Though a light from the one lamp shone dimly on the bed, Hook stood in darkness himself, and at the first stealthy step forward he discovered an obstacle, the door of Slightly's tree.

It did not entirely fill the aperture, and he had been looking over it.

Feeling for the catch, he found to his fury that it was low down, beyond his reach.

To his disordered brain it seemed then that the irritating quality in Peter's face and figure visibly increased, and he rattled the door and flung himself against it.

Was his enemy to escape him after all?
But what was that?
The red in his eye had caught sight of Peter's medicine standing on a ledge within easy reach.