"Having something suit you isn't quite the same as liking it." Her voice isn't forceful; it's more an idle observation than it is a rebuttal. But it is true, she thinks. She was well-suited to the work of a secretary, but she'd have hated it and hated her life and hated every breath she took. Or - What was that ridiculous offer that John Mandrake made her to try to get information out of her about the Resistance? Making her some great lady of the British Empire - she'd have been very good at that work, quite well-suited, but also she'd have torn off her own skin in sheer self-hatred.
She does turn a smile back at him, lightly and wryly amused, in response to his question. "But I think that Captain Vane would have a word or two to share about my knot-tying skills if I tried to move up to a captaincy myself." She looks ahead and says - "But - no. It's more that...It just seems so dreadfully difficult, and dreadfully exhausting, keeping everyone under control. So I just was wondering whether the rewards of it are so great."
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Date: 2018-11-11 02:19 am (UTC)She does turn a smile back at him, lightly and wryly amused, in response to his question. "But I think that Captain Vane would have a word or two to share about my knot-tying skills if I tried to move up to a captaincy myself." She looks ahead and says - "But - no. It's more that...It just seems so dreadfully difficult, and dreadfully exhausting, keeping everyone under control. So I just was wondering whether the rewards of it are so great."