We're far from England, William. Far from anywhere the Articles have any meaning and far from where our values and traditions are commonplace. Or at least understood.

[Civilians might not always like what the Navy did, but they understood the importance of all of it.

For that much, at least, he sounded genuinely sympathetic.]

I will vouch for nine-tenths of this crew myself. [And the other tenth he did not know well enough, but would trust Archie's opinion on. The next part is said coolly, a hardness to his voice, even if it's difficult for him to come to terms with as well:] I will advise you not to suggest again that they are incapable based on their sex.