"Sounds good to me." He is, unfortunately, too short to really be much use getting the suitcases in the overhead compartment. Whomever designed the compartments clearly meant them for average-sized adult men.

Barbara would be right. He does still fidget and get restless, and still goes for long runs every morning. Weight gain's just an unfortunate effect of eating several thousand unnecessary calories a day, just because they're there.

"You're allowed to sleep on the plane too, you know. You don't have to entertain me all the way across the Atlantic." He pauses. "I mean, you can tell me a little about John. I don't really mind hearing about him."