Romeo shook his head. "I should," he said. "I'm not a very good Catholic, but that doesn't make me not one. My closest mentor was a friar, and, while he was far from flawless, he was one of my best friends for years at home. And I don't ..." he waved his bottle in the air, groping for an example. "I don't press rosaries on her."

"Probably something we should discuss when I'm not half-convinced women are evil, though."