His dominant sensation was of a deep relief and rest after some undue fatigue.

It crossed his mind that drunken men probably felt like that as they leaned against things on their way home.

He was affected himself, he saw, by the weariness and half-nausea following a mental intoxication.

The conceit pleased him, and he smiled to himself as he turned and took the first homeward steps.
It must be growing late, he thought.

Alice would be wondering as she waited.
There was a street lamp at the corner, and as he walked toward it he noted all at once that his feet were keeping step to the movement of the music proceeding from the organ within the church--a vaguely processional air, marked enough in measure, but still with a dreamy effect.