Romeo contemplated if it was possible to flick someone on the forehead through the phone. No, he didn't act on orders because they were orders, but ...

"No," he said dryly. "Doing something because of who or what you are, and not because of how you feel about that? I'd have no idea at all how that is."

Other than, you know, his family name being the single most important fact about him. That wasn't the same at all.