Chapter 8I arrive at the office early, so I can sort out some work for the two junior officers who've been assigned to me this month. I expect to spend most of the morning travelling to and from the O'Brien's farm and I don't want them to waste their time while I'm away. They're not the most enthusiastic of workers, so if I don't actually give them a task, they'll do nothing.
When I was a young policewoman, I looked for things to do because I wanted my superiors to notice me. Perhaps because I was a woman, performing what was seen to be a man's job and I had to work so much harder than my male colleagues to prove myself. I won't be able to judge if all woman officers work harder than their male counterparts until I am sent a female trainee, but as there are so few of them, that could take
