"For any given pair of a man and a woman travelling together away from anyone else, or sharing a room at an inn - I can try to get us separate rooms if you prefer for that or any other reason, but the Duckling's small enough that they might not want to give us one each, in case someone else comes along and needs one - yeah, people will expect that. It'll be different when we get to Corona City; people might take 'friends' at face value, as long as we don't conspicuously mention travelling there alone together through the forest. But showing up at an out-of-the-way inn together just the two of us - they're going to make assumptions."