"I will. I do."

If she wasn't already a little flushed from half a bottle of wine she might have blushed at the encouragement, faint as it was. People made a lot of assumptions about women that looked like her, usually that she wasn't up to the task or, less kindly, that she would be better suited pursuing a more decorative sort of position in life.

"I'm actually going to be leading a new study soon. Maybe. Fingers crossed."