Yeah. I imagine that it's one hellaciously nasty period for Hornblower -- I mean, in the books, it's not like Hornblower is an old hand at dealing with grief, y'know? In the movies, by the time he hooks up with Maria, he's already gone through Clayton, Mariette, and Kennedy. In the books, he has a . . . father who just kind of disappears out of the picture at one point or the other.

Some people are, I guess, ghouls for the amputation and typhus and the getting shot. I'm an emotional ghoul.