Williams, alwaysalert, opted to tap the penalty and picked a spot in the Munster line containing two forwards, racing between O'Connell and Jerry Flannery.
But alwaysalert to the danger of modern overinterpretation, she notes the ingenuousness, the innocence inherent in such frankness and, given how little his readers seemed to be aware, she wonders no more how much Melville understood himself.