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In the final book of the series, Home to Witchend, Saville tried to draw together the threads from all the stories and bring in almost every character who’d ever appeared. The story is centred around Peter’s eighteenth birthday, which is to be very special. David is a poor letter writer and yet again, Peter is feeling neglected. She wants him to put her first and show his feelings; ah, the cry of woman down the ages. As mentioned in part one of these Lone Pine posts, Peter has thought David ‘wonderful’ from the moment she met him. She is a very attractive girl. In Mystery at Witchend, some men in the Home Guard want to ask her about the stranger she’s seen about. ‘Good morning, Juliet,’ said one. ‘Speak to me from your window, I pray thee.’ In Seven White Gates, ‘a good-looking soldier with a kit bag on his shoulder grinned at her and called ‘Going for a hike on your bike, beautiful?’ Peter flicked he fair plaits disdainfully …’ One of their journalist friends always greets her with, ‘Hello, gorgeous!’.
Almost from the start of the series, it seems taken for granted, even by their parents, that Peter and David will be a couple. The twins are particularly obnoxious with their loud hints on the subject. It’s bound to be a difficult relationship as they can meet so seldom and when they do, some hand-holding and kissing goes on. At one point during the series, Saville started writing in his introductions that his characters were beginning to know ‘what they mean to each other’, i.e. they are falling in love. While Peter was annoyed with him, David was frantically busy organising the big surprise for her birthday. That won’t be the only celebration. They go off to Shrewsbury and come back looking pleased with themselves because they’ve bought an engagement ring. They are only eighteen, yet David calls Peter ‘Darling’, ‘sweetie’ and ‘love’ as if they’d been married for twenty years.
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Almost from the start of the series, it seems taken for granted, even by their parents, that Peter and David will be a couple. The twins are particularly obnoxious with their loud hints on the subject. It’s bound to be a difficult relationship as they can meet so seldom and when they do, some hand-holding and kissing goes on. At one point during the series, Saville started writing in his introductions that his characters were beginning to know ‘what they mean to each other’, i.e. they are falling in love. While Peter was annoyed with him, David was frantically busy organising the big surprise for her birthday. That won’t be the only celebration. They go off to Shrewsbury and come back looking pleased with themselves because they’ve bought an engagement ring. They are only eighteen, yet David calls Peter ‘Darling’, ‘sweetie’ and ‘love’ as if they’d been married for twenty years.
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