"Is this fine? Is it something a children's librarian would wear?"

She turns, lifting the corners of her A-line skirt. The black matches her top, but where the top is plain, the skirt is patterned with cardinals and bluebells.

"Can you come with me? Maybe set yourself up in the next room, and if it looks like I'm about to black out or blow the whole interview, can you just. Like. Shoot me."