"Giles and I certainly are not married," Ossie corrects mildly before addressing anything else, "by magic or mundane means."
"It's possible to be gentlemanly in one's bearing if not in actions. And by all means, don't think you had to give any answer on any future endeavours right this very moment, of course. Giles hadn't mentioned any negative opinion of you to me in the past. But evidently he doesn't hate you so much that a dalliance was out of the question. If he'd truly regretted his decisions enough to take up a vow of chastity and become a bloody nun I would've been the first to know about it."
Ossie reaches into his pocket for a cigarette and then remembers the firm no-smoking rules in most parts of the ship and goes for one of his barley sweets instead.
"And your objection to that is... on the basis of not wanting to damage your friendship with Sharky?" he asks, carefully, fully cognizant of the fact that if Sharky and Pratt are pining for each other that he will be insufferable for the rest of forever.
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"It's possible to be gentlemanly in one's bearing if not in actions. And by all means, don't think you had to give any answer on any future endeavours right this very moment, of course. Giles hadn't mentioned any negative opinion of you to me in the past. But evidently he doesn't hate you so much that a dalliance was out of the question. If he'd truly regretted his decisions enough to take up a vow of chastity and become a bloody nun I would've been the first to know about it."
Ossie reaches into his pocket for a cigarette and then remembers the firm no-smoking rules in most parts of the ship and goes for one of his barley sweets instead.
"And your objection to that is... on the basis of not wanting to damage your friendship with Sharky?" he asks, carefully, fully cognizant of the fact that if Sharky and Pratt are pining for each other that he will be insufferable for the rest of forever.