"Apart from chase every beautiful young girl in town from the tender age of eleven?" asks Aramis with another laugh. "It was not only my interest in God that had them itching to send me to seminary. But mostly other things most lads get up to - falling from trees and rooftops, stealing sweets, kisses, never being where I was supposed to be when I was supposed to be there."

He raises a brow. "I learned charm purely to survive my village's wrath."