They are going about amongst the students and the workmen, dining at popular restaurants, hearing people talk.

Maulevrier says it is delightfully amusing--ever so much better than the beaten track of life in Anglo-American Paris.' 'I daresay they are leading a Bohemian life, and will get into trouble before they have done,' said her ladyship, gloomily.
'Maulevrier is as wild as a hawk.' 'He is the dearest boy in the world,' exclaimed Mary.
She was deeply grateful for her brother's condescension in writing her a letter of two pages long, letting her into the secrets of his life.

She felt as if Mr.Hammond were ever so much nearer to her now she knew where he was, and how he was amusing himself.
'Hammond is such a queer fellow,' wrote Maulevrier, 'the strangest things interest him.

He sits and talks to the workmen for hours; he pokes his nose into all sorts of places--hospitals, workshops, poverty-stricken dens--and people are always civil to him.

He is what Lesbia calls _sympatico_.