Maria Pavlova, Part 6
"Well," she said, "this is going to seem kind of weird, but I'm a graduate student in both psychology and in your department, and I'd like to do a joint thesis with you and Dr. Pavlova in the psychology department..."
Tom noticed that she was caressing her ankles, and couldn't stop staring at her legs. He also couldn't help notice her lips and how her breasts were pushed up by her corset.
Penny continued: "You see, I'm very interested in the kind of measurement techniques you published with Dr. Pavlova, and I'm interested in the problem of experimentally validating those techniques."
Tom said that he was doing the measurement work on the side, and that it wasn't his main academic interest. He was trying to get out of this interview quickly, as he suspected some kind of trick... But he couldn't muster the willpower to ask Penny to leave.