Marion turned to regard the girl, Siena was her name, with a look that suggested she just suggested that she run back to the house. "Nonsense. I'd sooner walk," she declared, making it abundantly clear that there were certain lines she just did not cross.<br/><br/>"You'll just have to share the passenger seat with me, and Kasey will have to drive carefully, since you won't be held in by the harness." She gave her husband a glance, almost as if daring him to say otherwise. "once we're back at the house, then we can see to what other arrangements are going to have to be made." This time it was clear that she was tweaking him about the fact that he'd done nothing at all to plan for anything past the actual acquisition of a slave.