I began to stroll up and down with as careless an air as I could assume.
Soon, however, there was a change.

The workmen and business folk, their meal finished, began to come out of their houses and from the restaurants.

The loafers before No.

19 spoke to many of them.

Some said, "Indeed ?" shook their heads, smiled and passed on: they had no time to waste in staring at the king.