Re Mind Screw - what makes you say that Corcoran and Ralph are so far apart in age? It's entirely possible that they're both, say, late 30s - after all, the whole point is that Corcoran is Captain not because he's a senior sailor but because he was born middle-class. Josephine could easily be in her late teens, if Corcoran married young.
Re Mind Screw - what makes you say that Corcoran and Ralph are so far apart in age? It's entirely possible that they're both, say, late 30s - after all, the whole point is that Corcoran is Captain not because he's a senior sailor but because he was born middle-class. Josephine could easily be in her late teens, if Corcoran married young.