"Expect they'll find out otherwise soon enough, aye. Though, come to that..."

Jack lowers his voice and leans in so only she can hear him.

"Not to be casting any manner of aspersions on your willingness to go to war and all that, but have you considered that were our illustriously businesslike and ... well, tentacly ... opponents to be informed of this change in the wind, that they might not but be wanting to back away from something what's more than any of them bargained for, savvy?"