“Sure you do,” she says.
“You going to stay in town long?” Select a pair of clippers.
“Yes, I’m here for good, I guess. I’ve got a job here.”
“That’s swell,” heartily. “We need new people here. Don’t we, Jim?”
The second barber jumps and looks up. “Eh?” he says.
“I was just telling the little lady we need new people here.”
“Oh, uh, yes. Sure.”
“Yes,” you resume, “it’s a good town, but sometimes you get to wishing there were more people. You know, young people.”
“Yes, I must say it doesn’t look very lively to me,” she says. “Of course I’m used to Dodge City; that’s pretty lively.”
“Well now, I don’t know. You have to make your own excitement, of course. But it ain’t so bad. If you get in with the right kind, of course. A place like this, it’s pretty important what kind you get in with.”