I got to take three or four of the dogs out for exercise, anyhow.

Old Grannis thinks they need ut.

We'll walk out to the Presidio." Of late it had become the custom of the two friends to take long walks from time to time.

On holidays and on those Sunday afternoons when Marcus was not absent with the Sieppes they went out together, sometimes to the park, sometimes to the Presidio, sometimes even across the bay.
They took a great pleasure in each other's company, but silently and with reservation, having the masculine horror of any demonstration of friendship.
They walked for upwards of five hours that afternoon, out the length of California Street, and across the Presidio Reservation to the Golden Gate.

Then they turned, and, following the line of the shore, brought up at the Cliff House.