"No, lad---listen, we discuss this later, savvy? You're not well enough for it now, Archie. She won't do it again."

What did Buffy say? She had "bought them time." Jack had no idea whether he was lying or not. He did not want to mention that Grell had made an allowance for Horatio's revenge. Jack found the whole thing rather odd: why allow one man the freedom for taking revenge? Perhaps simply because Grell knew that Horatio was not nearly a match for her. Perhaps out of some sense of good form...Grell played by a set of inscrutable rules, truly. Or maybe, as he feared, because she wanted to add a third sailor to her list of Men Nearly Killed.