A/N; Due to a lack of challenges lately I fell back to the ol' familiar 'dialogue only' style. I'm sorry if I bore you guys with these.

Pirate Affairs

"What would you say?"

"Hmm?"

"I'm curious, luv."

"Curious about what?"

"How upperclass ladies lie."

"Why?"

"I doubt you'd be good at it."

"It's not an admirable quality, you know."

"Still. What would you say if he'd ask you how you got a bruise on your thigh?"

"He already did."

"And?"

"I told him the truth. I said I got it from a passionate embrace with a roguish pirate in some cheap tavern room. He laughed and called me silly."

"And that's how you keep up the illusion of being a respectable young wife, is that it?"

"That's it."