Peace to Cranford.
Peter became a favorite of the ladies of Cranford. Furthermore, after being questioned about never marrying by Mary, she confesses her interest in Mr. Holbrook, but it was a relationship Miss Jenkyns would have never approved of.
In conclusion, Peter remained up to his old trick to the last page. For his ruse was a vague signal of interest in marrying Mrs. Jamieson, to which she was extremely intrigued, but did little more than told stories at the time a Cranford party assumed he would ask for her hand in marriage.