"There's only one thing you'll have to do. You must make him steer a proper course. This is to be the Guide to the Cotswolds. You can't have him sending people back to Lower Wyck Manor all the time. You'll have to know all the places and all the ways."
"And I don't."
"No. But I do. Supposing I took you on my motor-bike? Would you awfully mind sitting on the carrier?"
"Do you think," she said, "he'd let me go?"
"Fanny will."
"I could, I think. I work so hard in the mornings and evenings that they've given me all the afternoons."
"We might go every afternoon while the weather holds out," he said. And then: "I say, he does bring us together."
That was how Barbara's happy life began.
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He did bring them together.