That sounds like a wonderful place to have a career. You must have so many stories about it... Might I hear one?

[police officers and detectives are people she's only heard about, not encountered, so she's curious as to what their work must have entailed, or even working for them.

at his statement, though, she pauses.]

Is it? That is, it's very kind of you to say. I don't want to seem ungrateful, I'd just never thought of it that way before.