"If I wanted someone who agreed with me all the time, I wouldn't be talking to someone who just broke rank to start a bar fight."

Grace stops walking, turns, and faces -- well, looks down at -- Trudy.

"Now, there's one of two conclusions here. Either you're a loose canon, who deliberately ignored the rules because you were itching to draw blood, or you made a calculated decision after weighing all the consequences to stick up for what you believed was right.


"I'll be disappointed if it's the former, after I gave you such a stirring defense."