No Western girl would have made her remark about the guns.
He did not know whether or not he was pleased over the discovery.
Certain subtle signs about her had warned him in the beginning that she was different from the other women of his acquaintance, but he had not thought of her being a stranger here, of her coming here from some other section of the country--the East, for instance.
Her being from the East would account for many things.

First, it would make plain to him why she had smiled several times during their talks, over things in which he had been able to see no humor.

Then it would answer the question that had formed in his mind concerning the fluency of her speech.

Western girls that he had met had not attained that ease and poise which he saw was hers so naturally.

Yet in spite of this accomplishment she was none the less a woman--demure eyed, ready to blush and become confused as easily as a Western woman.