Aphelise straightens, but does not stand or try to restrain Norrington. He speaks, though, as if to calm him down, dismissing Wellard. "Don't let the boy get to you, James. He doesn't know anything."

(The boy knows nothing, sir. Doesn't know the bobstay from the spanker boom.)

Aphelise watches Norrington and the Midshipman sent to fetch the tardy ex-Commodore to the Captain.