They're so fond of each other that they've no business apart.

So I reckon, Master Prescott and the rest of you young men, we'll be a-going now." The visitors had soon left the camp behind them.

The last seen of Hoskins, he was walking with the dazed air of a man who knows he's dreaming and is mortally afraid to wake up.
But that same day Mr.and Mrs.Hoskins were reunited and began life anew together.
"It all goes to show," the Overseer of the Poor afterwards explained philosophically, "what a fool a fellow is to be afraid to go back and look at his work.

It's the same spirit that makes automobile cowards afraid to stop the machine and go back to look at the child they've hit.

Any fellow that's afraid to go back and look at his mistake is bound to be mainly unhappy in life." A very few days afterwards Dick & Co., still propelling the push cart by turns, arrived in Gridley toward dark one late July evening.
They had so much to tell their relatives and friends that none of them got to bed very early on that occasion.
However, the month of August lay before them.