A slight scoffing sound -- though, if he was truly honest, Dan Hagman had muttered something similar. Once, when pressed about his unnatural accuracy with a rifle: it's just a matter of pointing and shooting, sir. The men had laughed. Sharpe had laughed, too.

"With a gun, Miss Trinket. Can you aim a gun?" But his tone dropped, because now he was curiously watching what on Earth it was she was doing.