For example, he gayly renamed Monument Place the Place de la Concorde, assuring her that the southward vista in the Rue de la Meridienne, disclosing the lamp-bestarred terrace of the new Federal Building, and the electric torches of the Monument beyond, was highly reminiscent of Paris.

Sylvia was able to dramatize for herself, from the abundant material he artlessly supplied, the life he had led abroad during his long exile: as a youngster he had enjoyed untrammeled freedom of the streets of Paris and Berlin, and he showed a curiously developed sympathy for the lives of the poor and unfortunate that had been born of those early experiences.

He was a great resource to her, and she enjoyed him as she would have enjoyed a girl comrade.

He confessed his admiration for Marian in the frankest fashion.

She was adorable; the greatest girl in the world.
"Ah, sometime," he would say, "who knows!".