A vision of walking with her through the streets of London came before his eyes.

"We will go for walks together," he said.

The simplicity of the idea relieved them, and for the first time they laughed.

They would have liked had they dared to take each other by the hand, but the consciousness of eyes fixed on them from behind had not yet deserted them.
"Books, people, sights--Mrs.Nutt, Greeley, Hutchinson," Hewet murmured.
With every word the mist which had enveloped them, making them seem unreal to each other, since the previous afternoon melted a little further, and their contact became more and more natural.

Up through the sultry southern landscape they saw the world they knew appear clearer and more vividly than it had ever appeared before.