"Safe and together," said she.
"Without the second, where would be the first?"
"Yet," said Barbara, "I fear you'll make a bad husband; for here at the very beginning—nay, I mean before the beginning—you have deceived me."
"I protest——!" I cried.
"For it was from my father only that I heard of a visit you paid in London."
I bent my head and looked at her.
"I would not trouble you with it," said I. "It was no more than a debt of civility."
"Simon, I don't grudge it to her. For I am, here in the country with you, and she is there in London without you."
"And in truth," said I, "I believe that you are both best pleased."
"For her," said Barbara, "I cannot speak."