Jack's making a grand escape from a military fort, and there's roughly 158,235 men standing around with one good-looking young woman in the middle. What's a better exit line for a legend? "Goodbye"? "Good luck"? "Thanks for all the fish"? *G*

I don't at all believe it was sincere - at least not in the sense of it being a serious regret (I don't doubt for a minute if she wanted to crawl into his bunk for an hour that he'd turn her away). His expression is not exactly one of serious pain or introspection.