And the oppressive heat had them both by the throat.
"Shall we sit down here and wait a little ?" asked he.

"Plan a little, see where we are and what's to be done next ?" She nodded assent.
"Of course," she said, "even if I could have got word in to you, I wouldn't have given you our real plans." "Hardly!" he exclaimed.

Then, coming to a fountain, they sat down on a bench close by.

Nobody, they made sure, was within ear-shot.
"Thank God," he breathed, "that you, Kate, and only you, met me as I came out! It was a grand good idea, wasn't it, to keep my time of liberation a secret from the comrades?
Otherwise there might have been a crowd on hand, and various kinds of foolishness; and time and energy would have been used that might have been better spent in working for the Revolution!" She looked at him a trifle curiously.
"You forget," said she, "that all public meetings have been prohibited, ever since last April.

Federal statute--the new Penfield Bill--'The Muzzler' as we call it." "That's so!" he murmured.