She had put away her work and her thoughts of it, those remarkable searches, researches, quests and queries. She had come to enter this diverse selection of Molly's friends and it disturbed her not at all that she knew none of them save me.
I recognized those qualities I'd seen applied to crew, inspectors and clients. She was able to give her full attention to whoever was speaking to her, and she took genuine interest in what they said. Her quick mind and intuition played all through their words reaping elements beyond their imaginations yet she never hurried the speaker, prodded, or assumed; she let people speak. She was, I had come to believe, interested in everything, and not because it might be employed to further her work though that was where her passion focused.