If she got the post, she could go on, farther perhaps than she had hoped, and when she had learned enough embark on a career of independent research.

She thought she had the necessary tenacity and brains.

There was an obstacle, but she would not hurry to meet it and it might be removed.
When she entered the room the man got up and indicated a chair.

He asked a few questions, rather carelessly, and afterwards remarked: "Miss Southern had already told me what I most wanted to know.

You may have heard about the work in which I am engaged." "Yes," said Agatha, with a touch of color, "I know what it is now." He smiled.