After learning why Peter swindles Henry out of thousands of pounds, we start to feel some sympathy for the otherwise awful former valet. While Peter is "tucked away" in a memory, we learn that his mother plans on blackmailing him and that he didn't have a great childhood. He tells this version of his mother that she's the reason he dies at the hands of the Lady in the Lake on the night he is to start planning his and Rebecca's escape. He, essentially, is in the wrong place at the wrong time and is either suffocated or has his neck broken before the Lady takes his body back to the lake.