[ peggy rolls her eyes. it's as though rather good as a pa settles like a terrible insult. there are worse ways to be described, certainly, but this one feels particularly galling. it's not rip's fault. reality is, she was good at her job -- truancy aside. her competency had been a point of frustration in the immediate aftermath. a frustration she'd explained to doctor palmer, sort of, but of course never mentioned in rip's company. until now, it had always seemed preferable to sweep that entire affair under a rug.

and just now it would do no good to tell him exactly how intrigued and interested she had to have been in order for that version to abandon her duties so often and so long. it would do no good to express the strained pained hopefulness that different woman had felt when faced with reminders of both home and the unknown in one package.

instead, she talks about ray. ]

Those are damned dangerous qualities. [ and when she says it, now, she's considering all this fuss about working on a team together -- the legends, they call themselves. ] Noble ones, but nevertheless dangerous. I suppose I was hoping for his sake it might have been some sort of act.

[ -- which is as good as saying she expects everyone else to also lie.

well. nearly everyone else. ]