He nods, understanding. "I suppose it's easy to romanticize something you've never seen for yourself. I've certainly met my share of men and women willing to swoon over the romance of war, and I never saw much to celebrate about that. But then, enlisted soldiers do not write their own history, and neither, I think, do famous pirates."

Ah. He's getting philosophical. That's embarrassing. Watson flashes a quick grin.

"My apologies, you certainly don't want hear me prattle on so."