The not-quite-yet-an-association of Southern governors’ dinner had been encouraging, and had delayed her departure until past eleven.
Clarissa had carefully tested the waters about female candidates—which shouldn’t be a goddamn question, but was.
She also led others into conversations about the roles of couples in government. The governors had run with the topic, saving her from directly asking about families split across two offices. Kentucky’s husband was a federal judge in the same state. West Virginia’s wife was launching a campaign for the House of Representatives in two years.
There had also been two divorces over similar issues, one of the women claiming it was because she’d made the state senate while her husband had still been a struggling councilman. The other because his stat
