Hook’s ship, the Jolly Roger, emits a small green light as it floats. Smee is sewing, and the other pirates are loafing or playing dice. Hook paces thoughtfully along the ship, thinking of his recent triumph. He is satisfied, but he is not happy: he does not enjoy the company of his crew, who are “socially so inferior.” The narrator implies that Hook was formerly quite a famous and upstanding British citizen. He went to an elite school, and its lessons and mannerisms still affect him strongly, especially the idea of “good form.” Every day Hook asks himself whether his behavior has shown good form. He is famous, but is fame good form? “Most disquieting question of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?” He questions the course his life has taken, and worries that children do not like him – unlike Smee, who is adored by all children. Hook wonders sadly whether they love Smee for his good form, and droops helplessly onto the floor. The other pirates become disorderly, and Hook recovers his steeliness and orders them angrily to drag the children up to the deck. Hook tells them they are going to walk the plank – all but two, since he needs two cabin boys. When he asks for volunteers, Tootles and the other boys all explain that their mothers would not want them to be pirates. Hook almost enlists John and Michael, but they refuse on grounds of loyalty to the British crown. Just as Hook is about to proceed with the execution, he hears the ticking of the crocodile. His limbs crumple in terror. He crawls into a corner, and the other pirates prepare to submit to fate. But when the boys look around, they see that it is not the crocodile who is ticking – it is Peter Pan.