"Believe me, Alistair, I know far more about my husband's inability to be trusted than you will ever know," Katherine snapped. "I have no intentions of you running for public office. If that happens, if I fall, then that won't work. We'll have failed in such a way that no one will try for another twenty years."
"What I want- no, what I'm asking- is that you'll consider..." She breathed in, her finger scratching her ear fiercely. "I don't know what to do if this all goes crashing down. I don't know who takes it up. All I know is that I want to know that it's not for nothing at all. I know that there has to be a plan but I don't know where that starts or what it is."