Now they only pretended; before they had been nobly sincere.

They began to try their walks again, but it proved a lame imitation, for these things, from the first, beginning or ending, had been connected with their visits to the church.

They had either strolled away as they came out or gone in to rest on the return.

Stransom, besides, now faltered; he couldn't walk as of old.

The omission made everything false; it was a dire mutilation of their lives.