Doctor Bradford must have found her vastly entertaining from the way he laughed whenever he quoted her, which he did frequently.
"I wish she wouldn't be so alarmingly outspoken when she sings our praises to strangers.

She gave him to understand that I am a full-fledged author and playwright, the peer of any poet laureate who ever held a pen; that Lloyd is a combination of princess and angel and halo-crowned saint, and Joyce a model big sister and an all-round genius.

How she managed in the short time they were alone to tell him as much as she did will always remain a mystery.
"He knew all about Joyce raising bees at the Wigwam to earn money for her art lessons, and my nearly going blind at the first house-party, and why we all wear Tusitala rings.

Only time will reveal what else she told.

Maybe, after all, her confidences made things easier, for it gave us something to laugh about right in the beginning, and that took away the stiff feeling, and we were soon talking like old friends.