His walks were an integral part of his outdoor activities, which his wife had never looked deeply into.

Mrs Verloc felt that the position was delicate, but she faced it with the same impenetrable calmness which impressed and even astonished the customers of the shop and made the other visitors keep their distance a little wonderingly.
No! She feared that there were things not good for Stevie to hear of, she told her husband.

It only excited the poor boy, because he could not help them being so.

Nobody could.
It was in the shop.

Mr Verloc made no comment.