But out west here it seems as if they either like you or not.
Just when they first meet you, you're taken right into the fold on the strength of what you are yourself.

Rex said an awfully funny thing the other day when Barty Browning declared that he had two Indian chiefs in his family, and Rex asked me if we had a little 'tommyhawk' in our family." The door opened with a little, light, deprecating tap first from Miss Daphne's finger-tips.

She glanced around the side of it cautiously to be sure she was not disturbing the Dean, and smiled whimsically when she saw the two.

The Dean's pipe had gone out, and he was leaning over the desk listening as eagerly as though he had been a boy himself, while Kit, with her hands clasped behind her head, chatted.

Usually people conversed with the Dean, they never chatted, and Miss Daphne realized that Kit had already passed the outposts of the Dean's defenses..