"I'm glad you found someone to help you," he said, wrapping his arm around her shoulders and holding her close. "I'm glad I found you." It was odd; he was used to being around the rest of the gang nearly all the time. Only rarely was he on his own anymore, and even having only one other person around was strange.
Nice, being that that one other person was Marian... but strange. He kept expecting the gang to walk in the door. Getting used to not knowing anyone-- not his friends, not the people he had grown up around, not familiar faces of people he helped or saw in passing-- was going to be a new experience. Even when he and Much went on Crusade, at least they had known a couple of other local nobles who headed off at the same time.
"A pity," he said, smiling down at the top of her head. "I always rather liked that costume."