Ugh, I've come back to this story every so often since you wrote it and it hurts so beautifully every time.
I do like to think of Peter with Harriet after all this is over, too - although think of the headlines! Do you think he'll still be able to detect things? Perhaps in bohemia?
Oh dear, the wedding headlines would be spectacular!
I think that Peter is going to be out of doing any professional detection, because he won't be able to work with the police or do anything requiring respectable social status. But he's still clever, so the short story sort of thing that he does, when he works out jewel thefts for friends and relatives would still be possible for any friends or relatives still talking to him.
I wonder whether his best chance of some professional rehabilitation would be the war. His security clearance is gone for the present, as are his foreign office connections. But marrying Harriet would (ironically) help him socially, in terms of presenting this incident as an aberration now over. It seems reasonable that at some point someone would want to find a use for him in the war effort. Or because Peter stumbles on all sorts of cases accidentally, that can happen again in the UK or abroad, and in a blaze of publicity he saves the Duke of Kent or the King of Norway* or the French ambassador or something, and suddenly everyone wants to work with him again (though possibly still not the police).
*Now I'm imagining fic in which fair-haired Peter is given a crash course in Norwegian and parachuted in.
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