The latter, like Marie, was in black: jacket, breeches and stockings all of the same hue.
"Oh, certainly!" replied Marie.

"It's now barely eight o'clock, so we have plenty of time.

Still you need not wait for us, you know, we shall always find our way back." It was a delightful morning.

When they started, Pierre could fancy himself with a friend of his own sex, so that this trip together through the warm sunlight seemed quite natural.

Doubtless their costumes, which were so much alike, conduced to the gay brotherly feeling he experienced.
But beyond all this there was the healthfulness of the open air, the delight which exercise brings, the pleasure of roaming in all freedom through the midst of nature.
On taking the train they found themselves alone in a compartment, and Marie once more began to talk of her college days.