The first plan isn't so complicated, it's quick, and at once we've got Maggie free to use in other operations.

The first looks the best bet to me--but, as I said, we don't have to decide yet.

We can let developments help make the actual decision for us." Barney did not add that a further reason for his objecting to the second plan was that he didn't want Maggie actually tied in marriage to any man.

That was a relationship his hopes were reserving for himself.
Barney's inborn desire for acknowledged chieftainship again craved assertion and pressed him on to say: "You see, Maggie, how much depends on you.

You've got a whale of a chance for a beginner.