"You ass!"
Seaman Elroy Applegate didn't flinch.
"Brave, are we, now that a woman's taught you how to haunt that miserable excuse for a mortal? I thought you shoved off hours ago."
Elroy rose to his full height, trying so hard not to stutter that he floated off the Widow's Walk.
"S-she, Mrs. Muir, s-s-she taught me courage. B-b-but you haven't learned to l-l-l-ove. That's w-w-what w-w-we always said in the g-a-a-lley. Y-y-you never needed anyone."
The Captain lunged, but Elroy faded from view.
Furious, Daniel Gregg rematerialized in the master cabin, fists clenched.
Blast them both.
Outside, thunder rumbled.