"Go ahead. Say it! Don't I know anything? No. I am too highly educated.
You see, I took the full college course."
She drew her sharply pencilled brows together and pursed her lips in meditation, regarding him meanwhile with a look that was not all disapproval.
"Am I hopeless?" he inquired at length.
"Dear, no! Experience is a good thing, of course, and ability is even better, but neither is absolutely necessary in government work."
"Oh!"
"Provided—-"
"What?"
"—You have influence. I was merely trying to think of the niche into which you would best fit."
"When a fellow hasn't any of those qualifications, then what? Take me, for instance."
"You have at least one."