They could have skated on that ice for hours, and nobody have been the wiser.

The crowd and the police were at the other end, more than half a mile away, and round the corner.

Nothing stopped their going on but the knowledge that they ought not.

Things such as these make one pause to seriously wonder whether the Teuton be a member of the sinful human family or not.

Is it not possible that these placid, gentle folk may in reality be angels, come down to earth for the sake of a glass of beer, which, as they must know, can only in Germany be obtained worth the drinking?
In Germany the country roads are lined with fruit trees.