Perhaps, could Peter have looked into the future, he would have avoided that corner.

Perhaps, could he have looked even further, he would have found that in that chance lay the greatest happiness of his life.

Who can tell, when the bitter comes, and we later see how we could have avoided it, what we should have encountered in its place?
Who can tell, when sweet comes, how far it is sweetened by the bitterness that went before?
Dodging the future in this world is a success equal to that of the old woman who triumphantly announced that she had borrowed money enough to pay all her debts.
As a matter of course Watts was grateful for the timely assistance, and was not slow either to say or show it.

He told his own set of fellows that he was "going to take that Stirling up and make him one of us," and Watts had a remarkable way of doing what he chose.

At first Peter did not respond to the overtures and insistance of the handsome, well-dressed, free-spending, New York swell.