"Macmillan has nothing that you don't yourself have, and then some." The only possible one-up she could think of that Macmillan might have was his career. Being a healer was nothing to sniff at but a Ministerial career admittedly came with influence, power, and a lot more opportunity for a share of it. Unless one was Hospital Director, the only real influence one had was over invalids, outside the hospital it might garner some respect to be head of a ward but not in the same way as being head of a Ministry department did. She was quite sure that sort of thing mattered to Tatiana but was it more important to her than marrying an heir? "If it is 'odd', as you put it, Tatiana is far too intelligent to let it inconvenience her for long."
