What do you think when you look in the mirror?

[bad_form]

James Hook is not an old man. So boasts his reflection, and most convincingly

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[w_darling]

What were you like as a school boy?

[bad_form]

Unfashionably precocious, to say the least.

[w_darling]

How precious! What was your best subject?

[bad_form]

*enigmatic smile* Can you not guess?

[w_darling]

Well, I imagine piracy was not an offered course.

[bad_form]

*chuckles* Indeed not.

Literature and Latin were my strong suits. I was not without talent for Mathematics, but the Romantic in me much preferred the life metaphors of prose to those of Pythagorean theorem.

[w_darling]

I guessed it exactly! Well, perhaps not the Maths, but it is quite easy to see that you are a man of the arts, Captain. My father had a classical education, too. We are all very proud of him.

[bad_form]

And what of your mother? I imagine she is a wonderfully refined sort of lady, eager to defer to her husband's better judgment, especially when that judgment does not trouble itself over her spending habits.

[w_darling]

Mother is the prettiest woman in Bloomsbury and has always had very careful spending habits. I think she is often the more sensible one.