Athena can hardly miss the direction of his wandering eyes, nor fail to guess at the trajectory of his thoughts. Yes, she could have told him, she's had propositions from students before, and from colleagues. It's invariably rather awkward, for them. It's immaterial to her; human lust is quite uninteresting in its predictability. She does him the kindness of feigning ignorance, her own gaze not wavering. "Urban planning and public policy. Building cities and making them work, to put it in a nutshell. Are you planning on college?" She knows he was, from what Marcie confided. And she knows, from her own previous digging into the Murphy family and their circumstances, that it was quite a tall ambition.