... Tickencote, Thorpe by \Vater, and by stone manorial houses, and sometimes farmhouses, that have that air of timeless prosperity and clean beauty that is t ypical of the richest of Cotswold architecture. There are barns here, with high arched entrances, ...

... would say : I wonder if those birds will fly through the arch or go over the bridge? and the unsuspecting person to whom the remark was made would at once say: Oh, they'll go through the arch, of course, to which the other would reply : I bet you ...