"That is awfully silly. I don't think that's true at all. You're a smart boy if you already know that." Holden smiled and glanced at Gunn and Barty again. "Of course you can ask Barty. You and Barty will have to agree and then you can come with me. It's a nice little cottage, you'd have a room. And we have an apple tree in the garden, as I said."

Which carried a surprising amount of apples and he really had to find a productive way of getting rid of them. "Do you get along with your brother? I've been told he's a smart boy."