"I tend to prefer to do it with inanimate objects, but if you ever make me cross, I'll take you up on your offer," she assures him, given that she certainly had made quick work of Howard from time to time, and she felt terribly confident in that.

"Is that what you've been doing to pass the time? Knitting while the rest of us were recuperating?" It had felt so endlessly hopeless and exhausting, being that sick, and Peggy's very glad it's all over.