Tom has accomplished many things, despite his lack of experience. He has a friendship, though strongly disapproved of by his master, with a young witch named Alice Deane. However, both his mother and his master's love, a Lamia witch called Meg have advised him to "treat her better than John treated me and it won't end like this". Tom continues his friendship with Alice, despite the warnings given by the Spook. He also seems to develop some feelings for her, although it is possible that he could be constantly fretting over her because she is the closest thing he ever had to a friend. In the fifth book, she kisses him for the first time, before running off, supposedly to Pendle.