Somebody said, “If you’re interested in animals you must meet Louis Leakey.” So I rang up. A voice said, “I’m Leakey. What do you want?” He hated the telephone. So I said I wanted to meet him, and he said, “Come to the museum.” The natural history museum. Asked me all these questions, took me around. I think he was amazed that a young girl straight from England with no degree knew so much, because I had done what my mother suggested, I’d gone on learning about Africa. I read books, been around the Natural History Museum in London. So I could answer many of his questions, and he offered me a job just like that, boom, first day. And I said, rather cheekily, I suppose, “Well, this is fantastic, but before I settle down to…” — because it was a secretary — “…to work for you, I must get out into Africa. I must. I’ve come all this way and I must go out into the wild and see a lion.”