Peter's face clouded. "Everything comes at a price. Or have you not learned that yet?

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

For Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.

If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.

Had not enough gone wrong?

There is always something left to lose.

And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.