So he is burnt, and also prone to over-analyzation. Archie's heart still moves in sympathy for the man. He supposes he's just beginning to come down from his resentful hate phase towards the Navy, and the admiral, being here for less time, is still in the thick of his.

"It's a name we chose because the captain was feeling sentimental and I was feeling ironic. There's no Britain here, Admiral. Even if there were, I believe serving her people--not Parliament," he almost spits out the word, "and not the Admiralty--was one of the few useful things I did with my life, as things go. Not that things were the same in your time.

...And not that I would go back even if I ever could."

Only for one man, by the grace of God.