Her shrugs were expressive. This one reminded him that though she’d been out in Maryland for three months, her experience with DC was minimal.
“There’s a sameness to them. The way I have always figured it, DC attracts two major types of women. Ambitious women deeply concerned with politics for one. The others are looking for a job that they could find anywhere else more easily but wouldn’t have the prestige of being involved in the government—or the chance at a future president for a husband, because of course they can make the right man into that. Guess which type I normally meet?”
“The tall blondes.”
“Well sure,” he wasn’t going to fall for that trap. “Who wouldn’t? But I’m finding that now I’ve met a third type.”
Linda did that narrow-eyed inspection thing of hers.
“Short brunettes
