His politics was a kind of religion, and it did not prove upon analysis to be either so fantastical or so fanatical as she had believed at first.
As the days shortened, he would prolong their walk until the shops and factories discharged their employees upon the streets.

The fine thing about the people was, he said, the fact that they were content to go on from day to day, doing the things they did, when the restraints upon them were so light,--it proved the enduring worth of the Great Experiment.

Then they would plunge into the thick of the crowd and cross the Monument plaza, where he never failed to pay a tribute in his own fashion to the men the gray shaft commemorated.

In these walks they spoke French, which he employed more readily than she: in his high moods it seemed to express him better than English.

It amused him to apply new names to the thoroughfares they traversed.