Lieutenant Pasco, shook his head. “I will have to spell ‘confides’ letter by letter my lord. That word is not in the signal book.”
Captain Hardy interrupted “We are closing fast.”
Nelson was calm. “What can you give me for these brave men to take into battle?”
“’Expects’ is one flag, my lord.”
“Very well. It is not what I want, but 'England expects' it must be.”