"If you want to go home, I wish very much for you to have that. I only note that I find myself beginning to settle down rather more comfortably than I might have expected."

Oh, he's caught out in having to be explicit. Oops. Watson makes a small, embarrassed sound, halfway between a sigh and a laugh. "Where I am from, lieutenant, no young woman would be permitted to earn such a rank as yours in any service, but here this is unremarkable. This is also a town where there is remarkably little judgement about one's romantic partners, where I am used to censure, scandal, and very possibly criminal charges if one happens to have the wrong sort of partner. I find the change refreshing."