Unity made friends with all parties, and she now found, with some amusement, that she was going to like Lewis Rand.
Rand looked too, freely and quietly, at the young men, his fellow guests.

Each, he knew, was arrogantly impatient of his presence there.
Well, they had nothing to do with it! His sense of humour awoke, and Federalist hauteur ceased to fret him.

Colonel Churchill, the most genial of men, pushed his chair into the Republican's neighbourhood, and plunged into talk.

Conversation in Virginia, where men were concerned, opened with politics, crops, or horseflesh.

Colonel Dick chose the second, and Rand, who had a first-hand knowledge of the subject, met him in the fields.