Hey! Even if he hadn't planned it, there was nothing that said he couldn't grade it as such!

...Not that Kathy was going to say that out loud.

"Thank you," she said, with a quick bob of her head to show he'd gotten her name right. The 'I suppose' made his welcome come across as slightly less than gracious, but then, he had been somewhere sandy with camel-elephants. "Glad to be here?"

That wasn't supposed to have been a question.