"Hah...you're right. You're a smart young woman."

Just because he's failed before doesn't mean he could carry the regrets so tightly anyway. That's simply science, isn't it? Making mistakes and carrying on?

He doesn't seem much worried about her saying there's a knife in her boot - in fact, he gives her an impish little smile and tugs up his pantleg. There is a pen in his sock garter. "They say it's mightier than the sword, you know."