[ This couldn't be denied. ]

I'm not an 'army guy'... at all.

[ Though she had no idea how deeply that statement was felt. ]

I'm more an ideas man. Big picture, that's me.

[ So he said with only the lightest of bitter laughs at the suggestion Mal ought to be allowed anywhere near his place. ]

That would never work out. She'd see it as an opportunity to enact her revenge on me. I ruined her 'brilliant' plan to steal candy from an old man.