"Well, I came here so that I could judge the Senator," she said. "I hoped he could really help me. We could have used an honest, decent Senator to back the lab, for once. Obviously, Alcott’s someone who could really understand us. But now he’s been destroyed, because he went head-to-head against Huey—a man who just chews up people like him. Politics always chews up people like him." Her face grew long and grim. "Look what he’s done with this hopeless old building, look at this beautiful work he’s done. He must be some kind of genius, and now they’ve just crushed him. This really makes me sick at heart. What a loss. He’s lost his mind. It’s a national tragedy."